Patent ID: 8391877

Claim:
A method for distributing resources in a cellular communications network, the method comprising: directing, by a first network node, a second network node associated with a first cell region to report radio resource-related data, wherein said radio resource-related data comprises one or more 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 second cell region that neighbors the first cell region, that exceed a quality threshold over a measurement period; receiving, at said first network node, at least one measurement report of said radio resource-related data; and re-allocating, by said first network node, the distribution of resources among said first cell region and one or more other cell regions as a function of said radio resource-related data in said first cell region.