Patent ID: 8837362

Claim:
A method comprising: causing an indication of an inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) paging period to be provided to a mobile terminal in an idle state, wherein causing the indication of the ICIC paging period to be provided comprises providing an ICIC paging period T ICIC and a number N ABS of consecutive almost blank subframes (ABS) subframes in which a paging message is to be expected; for a respective ICIC paging period, determining by a macro cell the N ABS nearest ABS subframes of a closed subscriber (CSG) cell relative to a paging occasion (PO) subframe of the mobile terminal; and causing the paging message to be provided to the mobile terminal in one of the N ABS nearest ABS subframes of the CSG cell relative to the PO subframe of the mobile terminal; wherein for the case of the PO subframe overlaps with one of the ABS subframes mapping the paging message to the PO subframe; and for the case of the PO subframe does not overlap with any of the ABS subframes mapping the paging message to one of the N ABS subframes which is not also the PO subframe.