Scheduling of users on a shared radio resource using a combination of link quality and traffic information

The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for optimizing radio resource utilizations when scheduling data transmissions between a radio base station and one or more user equipments on a radio channel over a radio interface in a communication network comprising a plurality of said radio base stations serving cells between which said user equipments are moving. Firstly information on channel quality of said radio channel is obtained. Also, information on the traffic per user within the cell is obtained. Then, the information on channel quality and said traffic information are combined and the data transmission is scheduled based on the combination.