Patent ID: 8565785

Claim:
A method for transmitting inter-cell interference information by a serving Evolved Node B (ENB) in a communication system, the method comprising: allocating, by the serving ENB, a specific resource to a User Equipment (UE) located in a service region of the serving ENB; checking a location of the UE in the service region; setting a High Interference Sensitivity (HIS) of the UE, based on a result of the checking; determining a distance from the location of the UE to a service region of an adjacent cell; setting a High Interference Transmission (HIT) of the UE depending on the determined distance; and transmitting a High Interference Indicator (HII) for the specific resource, which includes the HIS and the HIT, to the adjacent cell, wherein the HIS represents a sensitivity for an interference signal received from the adjacent cell and sensed by the UE, and the HIT represents a level of an interference signal received at the adjacent cell during signal transmission by the UE.