Patent ID: 8346173

Claim:
A method of facilitating inter-cell interference mitigation in a wireless network, comprising: managing, in a node of the wireless network, a set of RNTIs (radio network temporary identifiers) for a set of user equipment (UE) being served by the node in the wireless network; determining, in the node, whether the UEs will likely cause interference with at least one neighboring cell, based on at least one respective attribute of the UEs; dividing, in the node, the set of RNTIs into at least one first subset for the UEs that are determined to likely cause interference, and into at least one second subset for the UEs that are not determined to likely cause interference; and allocating, in the node, the UEs that are determined to likely cause interference to the at least one first subset of the RNTIs such that UEs that are determined to likely cause interference are respectively allocated a corresponding one of the RNTIs among the at least one first subset of RNTIs, wherein each allocated RNTI uniquely identifies a corresponding one of the UEs.