Patent ID: 8200263

Claim:
An apparatus for facilitating radio-communication-system uplink interference coordination in a cell, said apparatus being adapted to receive interference-related condition information for a plurality of mobile stations in the cell, the condition information in each mobile station of the plurality of mobile stations being measured by a condition measurer in the mobile stations, said apparatus comprising: a detector configured to detect the interference-related condition information for the plurality of mobile stations in said cell, said detector including: a counter for counting the number of mobile stations of the plurality of mobile stations with respective interference-related condition information exceeding a threshold value; and a comparator for determining if said counter count of the number of mobile stations with interference-related condition information exceeding the threshold value exceeds a group threshold value; and a selector configured to choose to reallocate communication resources in the cell in response to the determination by said comparator that said counter count of said number of mobile stations with interference-related condition information exceeding the threshold value exceeds said group threshold value.