Patent ID: 8565174

Claim:
A resource management method in a multi-carrier system, wherein the multi-carrier system comprises at least one multi-carrier cell, the at least one multi-carrier cell comprises at least two cooperation established single carrier cells, and the method comprising: measuring by a base station, cooperative resource usage of all multi-carrier user equipments (UEs) corresponding to an identical Scheduling Priority Indicator (SPI) in each of the at least two cooperation established single carrier cells or in a resource pool, wherein the cooperative resource usage is indicative of usage and services provided to the all multi-carrier UEs in each of the at least two cooperation established single carrier cells, and if main carrier resources of a single carrier cell belong to non-cooperative resources, usage of the non-cooperative resource comprises usage of the main carrier resources; and reporting by the base station, the cooperative resource usage in each of the at least two cooperation established single carrier cells to a radio network controller (RNC) for performing resource management on each of the at least two cooperation established single carrier cells.