A radio access network, wherein the RAN comprises a plurality of base
stations and a base station controller, wherein the BSC allocates radio
resources (space, time, frequency, energy) of a resource domain, and
wherein each base station may handle within a corresponding base station
area a plurality of subscriber stations, is characterized in that each
base station area is statically divided into a plurality of spatial
subsectors, that a subset of the time-frequency domain of the resource
domain is allocated to each of the subsectors, that the base stations
collect traffic information for each subsector belonging to their
respective base station area, the traffic information comprising
interference conflict scenarios and traffic load, that the base stations
summarize the traffic information for each subsector belonging to their
respective base station area, that the base stations provide the base
station controller with said summarized traffic information for each
subsector belonging to their respective base station area regularly, in
particular periodically, that the base station controller analyses the
summarized traffic information for each subsector and re-allocates
subsets of the time-frequency domain to the subsectors regularly, in
particular periodically, in order to minimize interference between base
stations, and that each base station comprises an independent local
scheduling entity allocating radio resources of a subset of the radio
resource domain, allocated to a given subsector at a given instant in
time, to subscriber stations within this subsector. The method allows a
large throughput for each base station at a low management effort within
the RAN.