Patent ID: 8036674

Claim:
A method for predicting resource allocations in wireless network including a set of base stations (BSs), wherein each BS is in a cell, and wherein each BS serves a set of mobile stations in the cell, and wherein each cell is partitioned into a cell center and a set of sectors near edges of the cell, and the resource includes frequencies comprising: defining a sequence and rule of resource allocations for all of the BSs, wherein the sequence is shared by the set of BSs; acquiring, by each BS, previous resource allocations from the BSs in adjacent cells; predicting independently in each BS, for a next allocation, inter-cell interference (ICI) to the set of MSs in the cell based on the previous resource allocations by the BSs in the adjacent cells and the sequence and rule of resource allocations; and allocating independently by each BS, the resources to the MSs in the cell based on the ICI and the previous resource allocations using the sequence of resource allocations, and wherein a distance between two adjacent BSs is R and the transmission power to the MSs in the sectors is PC, and wherein strong interference I Strong and weak interference I Weak are respectively I Strong = PC ⁡ ( 2 R ) α , and I Weak = PC ⁡ ( 3 R ) α , where I Strong ≧I Weak , where C is a constant, and α is a channel path exponent.