CONFIGURING A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL WITHIN A CELL OF A CELLULAR NETWORK COMPRISING ANOTHER CELL WHICH USES MUTING PATTERNS

摘要

It is described a method for configuring a first communication channel within a first cell of a cellular network, wherein a first base station is assigned to the first cell, and wherein a user equipment is served by the first base station, wherein signals between the first base station and the user equipment are transmittable using the first communication channel, wherein the first communication channel is divided into subframes. The cellular network comprises a second base station being assigned to a second cell, wherein the second base station is adapted to use a second communication channel, wherein the second communication channel is divided into subframes, and wherein a part of the subframes being allocated to uplink transmission is unscheduled by the second base station due to a predefined muting pattern. The method comprises determining, by the first base station, a first plurality of the subframes of the first communication channel being related in time with the unscheduled subframes of the second communication channel and a second plurality of the subframes of the first communication channel being related in time with the scheduled subframes of the second communication channel, specifying a transmission scheme, by the first base station, for the first communication channel based on the determined first plurality of the subframes and based on the determined second plurality of the subframes, the transmission scheme comprising a first type of transmission for the first plurality of the subframes and a second type of transmission for the second plurality of the subframes, and configuring, by the first base station, the first communication channel according to the specified transmission scheme.