METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE

A method is described for reducing interferences in a wireless network, by: identifying cells which experience more interference than others; identifying a group of PRBs that their transmissions are subjected to more interference than other concurrent transmissions; identifying UEs associated with the group of PRBs, and determining whether the location of the UEs is at the cells' edges; selecting a pair of UEs where one member is located at a first cell's edge and the other is located either (i) at a second cell, not included within a neighbors' list of the first cell, or (ii) at the core or remote edge of a second cell. In case (i), the second cell is introduced to the first cell neighbors' list, and in case (ii) the other UE is falsely defined as a UE located at the near second cell's edge. Then, ICIC procedure is invoked for that pair of UEs.