Patent ID: 8259756

Claim:
A method in a base station of a mobile telecommunication network for reserving base station power for first and second channels, wherein the base station comprises a transmitter configured to communicate with users on said first channel and configured to communicate with said users on said second channel, wherein the second channel is associated to the first channel, and a scheduler for scheduling the users on the first channel and the second channel, wherein a timing of the first and second channels are overlapping, the method comprising steps of: calculating, for each user, a probability that the user will be selected for transmission by the scheduler at a time denoted TTI+t; based on the calculation, determining a candidate set of subsets of users, wherein the subsets of users included in the candidate set have a high probability to be scheduled by said scheduler at a time denoted TTI+t; estimating a required power of the first channel for a subset of users of the candidate set requiring a highest power of the subsets of users in the candidate set at TTI+t; scheduling a subset of users at a time TTI; determining a required power of the first channel at the time TTI for said scheduled users; determining a power of the first channel to be reserved at TTI based on the determined power of the first channel at TTI for said scheduled users and said estimated required power of the first channel for the subset of users of the candidate set requiring the highest power of the subsets of users in the candidate set at TTI+t; and, determining a power of the second channel to be reserved for the scheduled users based on the determined reserved power of the first channel at TTI, wherein t is a value equal to or larger than one.