Patent ID: 8615266

Claim:
A method for adjusting transmission power of signals transferred by a first base station through a wireless interface and/or transferred to the first base station, the first base station being located in a cell of a second base station, wherein the method is executed by the first base station and comprises: transferring through the wireless interface of the first base station a first message to the second base station, the first message being a random access message; receiving in response to the first message through the wireless interface of the first base station, a message comprising information representative of a path between the first base station and the second base station; receiving through the wireless interface messages transferred by the second base station to mobile terminals, information comprised in at least one message enabling determination of coverage of the second base station; computing a metric from both information; and adjusting, according to the computed metric, the transmission power of the signals transferred by the first base station to at least a mobile terminal served by the first base station through the wireless interface and/or the transmission power of the signals transferred to the first base station by at least one mobile terminal served by the first base station.