Patent ID: 7450905

Claim:
A method for reducing cross cell interference in wireless communications comprising: measuring an interference level of each timeslot at a particular user equipment (UE); eliminating a timeslot for downlink communication for the particular UE if the measured interference level exceeds a first threshold; identifying nearby UEs in nearby cells that are large interferers, the identifying comprising: gathering uplink timeslot usage for the nearby UEs, categorizing each timeslot based on the measured timeslot interference, wherein a timeslot is a small interference timeslot if the measured interference is below a second threshold and a timeslot is a large interference timeslot if the measured interference exceeds the second threshold, identifying a nearby UE as non-interfering if the UE transmits in the uplink in a small interference timeslot, and identifying a nearby UE as a large interferer UE if the UE does not transmit in the uplink in a small interference timeslot; gathering downlink timeslot usage for large interferer UEs; and eliminating a timeslot for uplink communication from the particular UE if that timeslot is used by a large interferer UE for downlink communication.