Method for controlling interference generated by a mobile station on neighbor base stations

1. Method for controlling an interference level generated by a mobile station communicating with a current base station on at least a neighbor base station in a wireless communication system, comprising at least steps:

A: selecting at least one neighbor base station;

B: estimating a first attenuation value representative of signal attenuation level between the mobile station and the current base station, and at least a second attenuation value correlated to said at least one neighbor base station selected in step A and representative of signal attenuation level between the mobile station and the correlated neighbor base station;

C′: estimating a first received signal strength by measuring power level of a signal received by the current base station from the mobile station;

C″: estimating the interference level from the relation: I_level=BS 0 _RSS+L 0 −L, in which

I_level is the interference level,

BS 0 _RSS is the first received signal strength estimated in step C′,

L 0 is the first attenuation value estimated in step B, and

L is one of said at least a second attenuation values estimated in step B,

D: comparing the interference level to a reference interference level, and according to the result of the comparison, sending to the mobile station at least information relative to a maximum transmitted signal strength for the mobile station.

2. Method according to claim 1 ,

Wherein, in step A, a plurality of neighbor base stations are selected,

wherein in step B, the first attenuation value and a plurality of second attenuation values are estimated, each second attenuation value among the plurality of second attenuation values being correlated to one neighbor base station among the plurality of neighbor base stations, and being representative of signal attenuation level between the mobile station and the correlated neighbor base station; and

wherein in step C″, L is the lowest second attenuation value among the plurality of estimated second attenuation values.

3. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the first attenuation value is estimating from the relation:

L 0=BS0_TSS−MS_RSS0, in which

L 0 is the first attenuation value,

BS 0 _TSS is a first transmitted signal strength representative of power of signal transmitted by the current base station, and

MS_RSS 0 is a second received signal strength representative of power of signal received by the mobile station from the current base station.

4. Method according to claim 1 , wherein each second attenuation value is estimated from the relation:

Li= BS i _TSS−MS_RSS i , in which

Li is the second attenuation value,

BSi_TSS is a second transmitted signal strength representative of power of signal transmitted by the correlated neighbor base station, and

MS_RSSi is a third received signal strength representative of power of signal received by the mobile station from the correlated neighbor base station.

5. Method according to claim 1 , wherein

the current base station performs steps A, C′, C″ and D, and sends to the mobile station information relative to neighbor base stations selected in step A;

the mobile station performs the step B, receives information relative to at least the first and second transmitted signal strengths BS 0 _TSS, BSi_TSS, sends the first and at least the second attenuation level of step B to the current base station;

the transmitted signal strength MS_TSS of the mobile station is set according to the maximum transmitted signal strength.