Patent ID: 8229451

Claim:
A base station for use in a communications network, in which a scheduler in each base station of said network controls a set of shared radio resources, said radio resources being at least near orthogonal to each other, said base station comprising: a communication circuit configured for receiving path gain measurements from at least one user equipment to at least one interfered base station; an interface circuit configured for receiving cell information related to a specific resource value from the at least one interfered base station, wherein the specific resource value is arranged to indicate a probability that a resource will be used, as well as an interference sensitivity on that particular resource; a processing arrangement for combining said cell information and said path gain measurements into a user specific resource value for each radio resource; a calculating arrangement for calculating a user specific weighted channel quality indication value for each radio resource, by combining a channel quality indication information available for each given user equipment with at least a product of the user specific resource value and a required transmit power for each user equipment; and wherein said scheduler of the base station is configured to use the user specific weighted channel quality indication values to make a scheduling decision.