A method and base station to control access point transmit power

摘要

There is described a method of controlling a basestation in a cellular wireless communications network, the method comprising, within the basestation, if there has been a significant change in interference, rerunning algorithms for selection of a carrier, a scrambling code and/or maximum total uplink and downlink power. The method further comprises, if there has been no significant change in interference, adapting a maximum value for a total transmit power of the basestation, such that interference between the basestation and other access points in the vicinity is minimized.