Patent ID: 8325621

Claim:
A method in a base station for predicting interference contribution, when scheduling an uplink data packet transmission from a first user equipment being connected to the base station, the first user equipment being in the neighborhood of a neighboring cell served by a neighboring base station, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining signal strength (SS) measurements regarding the first user equipment, wherein each signal strength measurement of the signal strength measurements is based on a signal between the first user equipment and the neighboring base station; receiving a resource scheduling request regarding the first user equipment for the uplink data packet transmission; scheduling uplink resources for the requested uplink data packet transmission; determining transmission power (P SUR ) to be used for the scheduled uplink resources; estimating an interference prediction contribution (I PC ) for the neighboring cell based on the determined transmission power (P SUR ), and the obtained signal strength (SS) measurements, and a path loss between the neighboring base station and the first user equipment; and sending the estimated interference prediction contribution (I PC ) to the neighboring base station.