Patent ID: 7979078
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, performed in a base station functioning as a serving base station to a mobile station, the method comprising: receiving, from the another base station, a coupled load indicator of a coupled load measured at the another base station, wherein the coupled load indicator indicates a coupled reverse link load experienced at the another base station and due to reverse link transmissions of the mobile station being served by the serving base station and maintaining the another base station in a set of active base stations; determining, based on the coupled load indicator and a mobile station transmission parameter of the mobile station, an expected coupled load to the another base station due to the mobile station, wherein the another base station is a non-serving base station to the mobile station; and forwarding the expected coupled load to be used by the another base station to determine an available capacity for managing reverse link transmissions.