Patent ID: 7343176

Claim:
A method of uplink transmission scheduling for a network including at least one radio network controller (RNC), at least one user equipment (UE), and a plurality of Node Bs, and the at least one UE being in soft handover with at least two Node Bs, the method comprising: determining a parameter to be applied to an uplink transmission schedule of the at least one UE with at least one scheduling Node B based on an interference effect caused to neighboring Node Bs, and fowarding the parameter to one or more scheduling Node Bs, wherein the uplink transmission schedule includes a transmit power or a transmit rate to be used by the at least one UE, and the parameter comprises a credit value to be applied to the transmit power or the transmit rate of the UE, and wherein the parameter further comprises a selection probability defined as a probability for a corresponding one of the one or more scheduling Node Bs of being selected by the at least one UE to perform scheduling.