Suppressing co-channel interference in dependence upon probabilities of establishing a link between a base station and a terminal via resource blocks

摘要

Each terminal of a plurality of network users is linked with a base station connected to a communications network, the links being established over a wireless resource comprising resource blocks. For each base station/terminal pair, a set of resource utilisation fractions is determined to indicate probabilities for establishing the link between that base station and that terminal via each of the resource blocks. A co-channel interference matrix is determined for each network component indicative of an expected interference from other network components when that network component receives network traffic via each of the resource blocks. The expected interference is probabilistically determined in dependence on the sets of resource utilisation fractions. In each network component, co-channel interference is suppressed in dependence on its co-channel interference matrix, and in each base station, links are dynamically established as required to handle network traffic by selecting from the resource blocks in accordance with the resource utilisation fractions.