Patent ID: 7853292

Claim:
A method comprising: performing, in at least one base station, at least one measurement of uplink signals from a plurality of mobile units; determining, at said at least one base station, a plurality of short-term entities based on said at least one measurement, each short-term entity being associated with one of the mobile units, said at least one base station being configured to allocate short-term resources to each of the mobile units based on said short-term entity to approach a selected level of a rise-over-thermal caused by the mobile units; determining, at said at least one base station, at least one long-term entity associated with the plurality of mobile units based on said at least one measurement; and providing said short-term entities and said at least one long-term entity to a radio network controller that is configured to allocate long term resources based on said plurality of short-term entities and said at least one long-term entity.