Patent ID: 7317897

Claim:
A method for power based radio resource management in wireless radio systems comprising the steps of: continuously measuring a total interference power (I tot ) received at a base station (BS), continuously measuring an own-cell interference power (I own ) of all intra-cell users connected to a predetermined cell, received at said base station (BS), continuously estimating a system noise power (P N ) and continuously estimating an other-to-own cell interference ratio (i) based on a number of consecutive measurements of said total interference power (I tot ) obtained by said total interference power (I tot ) measuring step and based on a number of consecutive measurements of said own-cell interference power (I own ) obtained by said own-cell interference power (I own ) measuring step, and performing at least one functionality of said radio resource management based on said estimation of said system noise power (P N ) and said other-to-own cell interference ratio (i).