Patent ID: 7158796

Claim:
A method, performed in a base station functioning as a non-serving base station to at least one mobile station served by another base station, for allocating reverse link resources to mobile stations served by the base station in a distributed base station communication system, the method comprising: measuring coupled load parameters of reverse link transmissions of the at least one mobile station served by another base station; calculating an estimated expected coupled load due to reverse link transmissions of the at least one mobile station based on the coupled load parameters; allocating reverse link resources to other mobile stations served by the base station in accordance with the estimated expected coupled load; wherein the allocating the reverse link resources comprises scheduling data transmission rates to the other mobile stations served by the base station to create a total reverse link load due to the other mobile stations at the base station not exceeding a difference of a total capacity of the base station and the estimated expected coupled load; wherein the estimating comprises calculating a previous coupled load due to the reverse link transmissions of the at least one mobile station based on the measured coupled load parameters measured during a previous transmission period, calculating the estimated expected coupled load based on the previous coupled wherein the calculating the estimated expected coupled load comprises calculating the estimated expected coupled load to be equal to the previous coupled load; wherein the calculating the previous coupled load comprises calculating a plurality of previous coupled loads; wherein the calculating the estimated expected coupled load further comprises calculating a filtered avenged total expected coupled load of the plurality of previous coupled loads.