<p>A method of downlink power allocation is provided in order to fully utilize the available power and to avoid imbalanced power in different symbols. The method comprising muting a cell's resource elements (REs) that correspond to locations of common reference signal (CRS) REs of an interfering cell, and allocating unused power of the muted REs to CRS REs or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) data RE of the cell after the muting.</p>
