摘要 |
<p>Downlink interference on highly uplink interfered allocated frequencies and corresponding candidate frequencies for reallocation is estimated (208, 210). The estimates are then utilized to narrow the number of candidate frequencies (212) and highly interfered frequencies (214) to be considered for reallocation (216). The estimation of downlink interference on a selected frequency is made by having a mobile station (20) measure (108) signal strength on the control channel frequencies of neighboring cells which are allocated to that selected frequency. From these measurements, a signal strength histogram is generated (112) for each neighboring cell, and a percentile (114) value is calculated for each histogram. These percentile values for the neighboring cells, minus a selected delta value (where appropriate), are then summed (116) to generate a value estimating the downlink interference for the selected frequency. The selected delta value is applied (116d) where the selected frequency in the neighboring cell comprises a traffic channel frequency.</p> |