Patent ID: 7376437

Claim:
A method of generating downlink power information for a multi-sector base transceiver site in which power can be shared between existing amplifiers of the sectors, the method comprising the steps: gathering downlink power information for each sector; when the total power required by the sectors is less than the total power available from the base transceiver site, modifying the gathered downlink power information for each sector to pre-empt traffic loading such that a more heavily loaded sector will be disproportionately allocated more power than a less heavily loaded sector; forwarding the modified downlink power information to an overload control module and a radio resource manager controlling the multi-sector base transceiver site; and determining a loading of each sector using thresholds to determine an overload in one or more sectors depending at least partly on the modified downlink power information, wherein the power to each sector is adjusted disproportional to the degree with which the sector is loaded.