A method for reducing interference in a cellular communication network, wherein a radio base station of the network is configured to serve at least a first cell and a second cell, where interference is reduced by selecting a link adaptation scheme for a UE in the first cell, the method comprises the steps of: - receiving (401;501) measurements on estimated channel quality, and the method being characterized by: - estimating (402;502) channel quality for a future transmission by adjusting the received measurements on estimated channel quality based on knowledge of future UE scheduling in at least the first cell and the second cell by: - determining disturbance caused by transmission in at least the second cell, - determining disturbance caused by transmission in the first cell by other transmitters within the first cell, and the method comprises the further steps of: - selecting (403; 503) the link adaptation scheme comprising a transmit power level based on the estimated channel quality for the future transmission, and - determining (404; 504) based on the selected link adaptation scheme a noise margin indicative of how much noise the radio base station receiver is allowed to experience in order to be able to keep the selected link adaptation scheme for each scheduled UE, and using the noise margin of the link adaptation as an upper boundary for the sequential link adaptation of the other transmissions, where the selected transmit power further is used for sequential link adaptation of other transmissions. - receiving (401;501) measurements on estimated channel quality, and the method being characterized by: - estimating (402;502) channel quality for a future transmission by adjusting the received measurements on estimated channel quality based on knowledge of future UE scheduling in at least the first cell and the second cell by: - determining disturbance caused by transmission in at least the second cell, - determining disturbance caused by transmission in the first cell by other transmitters within the first cell, and the method comprises the further steps of: - selecting (403; 503) the link adaptation scheme comprising a transmit power level based on the estimated channel quality for the future transmission, and - determining (404; 504) based on the selected link adaptation scheme a noise margin indicative of how much noise the radio base station receiver is allowed to experience in order to be able to keep the selected link adaptation scheme for each scheduled UE, and - estimating (402;502) channel quality for a future transmission by adjusting the received measurements on estimated channel quality based on knowledge of future UE scheduling in at least the first cell and the second cell by: - determining disturbance caused by transmission in at least the second cell, - determining disturbance caused by transmission in the first cell by other transmitters within the first cell, and the method comprises the further steps of: - determining disturbance caused by transmission in at least the second cell, - determining disturbance caused by transmission in the first cell by other transmitters within the first cell, and the method comprises the further steps of: - selecting (403; 503) the link adaptation scheme comprising a transmit power level based on the estimated channel quality for the future transmission, and - determining (404; 504) based on the selected link adaptation scheme a noise margin indicative of how much noise the radio base station receiver is allowed to experience in order to be able to keep the selected link adaptation scheme for each scheduled UE, and - determining (404; 504) based on the selected link adaptation scheme a noise margin indicative of how much noise the radio base station receiver is allowed to experience in order to be able to keep the selected link adaptation scheme for each scheduled UE, and