Patent ID: 8155659

Claim:
A method for dynamically distributing resources to a plurality of cell regions in a cellular communications network, said method comprising the steps of: directing, by a radio network resource controller, a first network node associated with a first cell region, or a wireless terminal in communication through said first cell region, to measure and report radio resource-related data, wherein said radio resource-related data is selected from the group consisting of: resource activity per channel, wherein the resource activity per channel is defined as the ratio of the time during which a channel is scheduled to the measurement period; aggregate resource activity per channel group, wherein the aggregate resource activity per channel group is defined as the average or xth percentile of the resource activities of all channels in a group over a measurement period; the number of transmitted power samples that exceed a threshold over a measurement period; and channel quality samples, per channel in a neighboring cell region, that exceed a quality threshold over a measurement period; receiving, at said controller, at least one measurement report of said radio resource-related data; and dynamically re-allocating, by said controller, the distribution of resources between said first cell region and at least a second cell region as a function of said radio resource-related data in said first cell region.