摘要 |
The application discloses a method for avoiding inter-cell interference in a cellular communications system. In the method, a user terminal (UE 2 ) measures ( 6 - 3 ) control signalling ( 6 - 2 ) of a first, serving base station (BS 3 ) and control signalling ( 6 - 1 ) of a second base station (BS 2 ), the user terminal (UE 2 ) being within the coverage area of the serving base station (BS 3 ) and the coverage area of the second base station (BS 2 ). Based on the measuring, the user terminal calculates ( 6 - 4 ) a timing difference between the signalling from the serving base station (BS 3 ) and the signalling from the second base station (BS 2 ). Information on the timing difference is provided ( 6 - 5 ) to the serving base station (BS 3 ). Based on the timing difference, the serving base station (BS 3 ) schedules ( 6 - 6 ) data transmission ( 6 - 7 ) to be transmitted to the user terminal (UE 2 ) non-simultaneously with the control signalling ( 6 - 1 ) from the second base station (BS 2 ).
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