Method and system for coordinated radio resource assignment

A method for coordinated scheduling with transmission point blanking of a plurality of radio resources, wherein a network comprises at least two base stations, each of the at least two base stations being connectable to at least one mobile station, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) calculating, by a coordinator, a first metric value for each combination of a mobile station of the network and each of the plurality of radio resources under the assumption that the at least two base stations are active;
• b) calculating, by the coordinator, a second metric value for each combination of a mobile station of the network and each of the plurality of radio resources under the assumption that at least one of the at least two base stations which is not connected to the respective mobile station using a concerned radio resource is muted;
• c) selecting, by the coordinator, the highest metric value from the calculated metric values;
• d) determining, by the coordinator, whether or not to assign the radio resource to the mobile station corresponding to the highest metric value;
• e) setting, by the coordinator, the other metric values corresponding to the radio resource to a predefined metric value;
• f) repeating steps c) to e) for the next highest metric value until all metric values are set to the predefined metric value;
• and
• g) coordinating, by the coordinator, transmissions of the at least two base stations to respective mobile stations using the determined assignments of radio resources.