Patent ID: 7676209

Claim:
A method, comprising: establishing a radio channel candidate; processing, by a controller, the radio channel candidate with potentially interfering signals using an interference cancellation technique and calculating a carrier to interference ratio for a selected carrier frequency of the radio channel candidate and the potentially interfering signals; calculating, by the controller, at least one dominant interference ratio being the ratio of a signal level of a strongest potentially interfering signal with respect to a sum of signal levels of other potentially interfering signals; using, by the controller, the dominant interference ratio to establish an indication as to an interference cancellation gain provided by the interference cancellation technique, the interference cancellation gain being used to establish a criteria for channel selection; using, by the controller, the interference cancellation gain to modify the carrier to interference ratio; and using, by the controller, a criteria based on the dominant interference ratio and on the modified carrier to interference ratio in a channel selection process for selecting a channel for the connection to be established.