Patent ID: 8744362

Claim:
A base station being installed in a communication area of an existing base station, and performing radio communication with a first mobile terminal, the base station being configured to: estimate a magnitude of radio interference given by the base station to a second mobile terminal that performs radio communication with the existing base station and a location of the base station, which is either one of close to the communication area center and close to the communication area edge of the existing base station, based on notified information from the first mobile terminal; select a high data rate mode as a downlink scheduling mode when the base station is located close to the communication area center of the existing base station and the radio interference given by the base station to the second mobile terminal is small; and select an interference mitigation mode as the downlink scheduling mode when the base station is located close to the communication area edge of the existing base station and the radio interference given by the base station to the second mobile terminal is large.