Patent ID: 8897797

Claim:
A system comprising: a first base station of a first vendor configuration; a second base station of a second vendor configuration; and a link between the first and second base stations, wherein the first base station is configured to: receive at least one interference indicator message from the second base station, and schedule transmission of data between the first base station and a mobile station based on the at least one interference indicator message, wherein scheduling the transmission of the data between the first base station and the mobile station includes determining whether to delay transmission of the data between the first base station and the mobile station for a period of time, wherein the period of time to delay transmission of data between the first base station and the mobile station is a randomly generated delay time period; and at least one additional base station and a second link between the first base station and the at least one additional base station; wherein scheduling transmission of the data is further based on the at least one interference indicator message from the at least one additional base station wherein the first base station is further configured to: receive at least one interference indicator message from the at least one additional base station; and calculate an interference decision metric based on interference indicator values in the interference indicator messages; compare the calculated interference decision metric to a threshold; schedule transmission of the data in the current resource if the calculated interference decision metric has a first relation to the threshold; and delay transmission of the data if the calculated interference decision metric has a second, different relation to the threshold.