Patent ID: 8208423

Claim:
A method of efficiently utilizing radio resources in a communication network, the communication network comprising a communication network node communicating with one or more user equipments over a radio interface, wherein at least two communication services are provided on said radio interface, each having a certain amount of power allocated in an interactive way, the method comprising: reducing the power interaction, by the communication network node, between said at least two communication services when allocating power to said at least two communication services, so as to allocate more power to a first one of said at least two communication network services than to a second one of said at least two communication network services when there is a high traffic load on said first communication network service and a relatively lower traffic load on said second communication network service or vice versa; wherein reducing the power interaction comprises: predicting when a power peak will arise in said first communication service; pre-adjusting the power of said second communication service based on said prediction.