Patent ID: 8213335

Claim:
A communication resource allocation method in which a base station allocates a communication resource, comprising: allocating a whispering resource to a whispering area, the whispering area being a peripheral area of the base station and the whispering resource having a resource area changed within the communication resource with a lapse of time; and allocating a plurality of speaking resources to a plurality of speaking areas, respectively, wherein the plurality of speaking areas belong to the base station, wherein the plurality of speaking areas correspond to a plurality of neighboring base stations, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of speaking areas is a border area between the base station and a corresponding neighboring base station, wherein each of the plurality of speaking resources corresponds to a whispering resource of a corresponding neighboring base station, wherein the plurality of whispering resources have a resource area changed within the communication resource with the lapse of time, where the communication resource allocation method further comprises obtaining a path loss difference value, the path loss difference value being a difference between first and second path loss values which are respectively given between the base station and a terminal and between one neighboring base station and the terminal; determining the terminal-including area as the whispering area when the path loss difference value is greater than a predetermined threshold value; and determining the terminal-including area as a speaking area corresponding to the one neighboring base station when the path loss difference value is less than the predetermined threshold value.