The present invention provides a method includes: receiving a downlink channel quality indicator or an interference indicator, where the downlink channel quality indicator or the interference indicator is fed back by a UE; estimating a weak interference noise matrix of the UE according to the downlink channel quality indicator or the interference indicator, where the downlink channel quality indicator or the interference indicator is fed back by the UE; obtaining a time-frequency channel matrix of a serving cell and a time-frequency strong interference matrix of a strong interfering cell, and obtaining a time-frequency interference noise matrix of the UE according to the estimated weak interference noise matrix and the time-frequency strong interference matrix; and estimate downlink channel quality according to the time-frequency channel matrix and the time-frequency interference noise matrix.