Patent ID: 8594578

Claim:
A method for triggering an overload indicator report, comprising: a first terminal dividing coverage area of the first terminal into layers according to inter-cell interference intensity in the coverage area; the first terminal determining a layer, in which a second terminal is located, of the coverage area of the first terminal according to maximum inter-cell interference intensity suffered by the second terminal currently; and the first terminal computing physical resource blocks needing to be computed according to status information of the interference suffered by the physical resource blocks occupied by the second terminal, and setting a triggering threshold of the overload indicator report used by the second terminal in the layer in which the second terminal is located according to the level(s) of the statuses of interference suffered by the physical resource blocks needing to be computed and the layer in which the second terminal is located, and according to a system requirement; and the first terminal triggering the overload indicator report used by the second terminal when determining that a result of the computing is larger than the triggering threshold of the overload indicator report.