Patent ID: 6885646

Claim:
A method for assigning resources in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: determining an interference level in a plurality of timeslots allocated for user traffic; determining an amount of useable resources in the plurality of timeslots; computing a Figure of Merit (FOM) for each of the plurality of timeslots by assigning resources to at least the timeslot having higher FOMs than any other of the timeslots, recomputing the FOM for the at least one timeslot, and increasing the at least one timeslot FOM by a value to prefer assigning additional resources to the at least one timeslot; varying weighting factors applied to interference and useable resources in computing the FOM to generate a plurality of timeslot sequences; measuring the total effective interference for each timeslot sequence; and assigning system resources in timeslots according to the timeslot sequence having the lowest total effective interference.