Patent ID: 7474644

Claim:
A hybrid time division multiple access/code division multiple access Node-B comprising: a time slot assignment and release device configured to determine at least one of a potentially interfering cell which potentially interferes with a particular cell; for each timeslot, eliminates that timeslot for uplink communication, if a first one of the potentially interfering cells uses that timeslot for downlink communications; for each timeslot, eliminate that timeslot for downlink communication if a dynamic interference measurement in that timeslot as measured by most users exceeds a predetermined threshold and if a dynamic interference measurement in that timeslot does not exceed the predetermined threshold for most users but exceeds the predetermined threshold for at least one user, eliminating that timeslot for assignment to the at least one user exceeding the predetermined threshold; assigning a timeslot to an uplink communication of the particular cell using non-uplink eliminated timeslots; and assigning a timeslot to a downlink communication of the particular cell to each user using non-downlink eliminated timeslots with respect to that user.