Scheduling communication in a wireless communication system

• US 10,721,753 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2019
• Issued: 07/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Wilkinson, Timothy, Speight, Timothy James
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Warner
• Application Number:
  US16/283,172
• Publication Number:
  US 20190261389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 515 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2601 Multicarrier modulation systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/16 Half-duplex systems; Simplex/duplex switching; Transmission of break signals non-automatically inverting the direction of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 based on quality criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A network device, based on received location from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE may determine that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other. Based on the proximity determination, the network device may provide at least one of the first and second UE uplink LTE resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs.

Claims

1. A network device comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor operationally coupled to the transceiver;

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive, via the transceiver, communications from a first user equipment (UE) indicating a location of the first UE;

receive, via the transceiver, communications from a second UE indicating a location of the second UE;

determine, based on the received locations from the first UE and the second UE, that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other; and

determine, based on the proximity determination, at least one of a first or a second UE uplink long term evolution (LTE) resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs and the uplink utilizes frequency division multiple access.

2. The network device of claim 1, wherein the group of UEs are scheduled the same uplink or downlink resources.

3. The network device of claim 1, wherein the locations include geographic position information.

4. A method performed by a network device, the method comprising:

receiving communications from a first user equipment (UE) indicating a location of the first UE;

receiving communications from a second UE indicating a location of the second UE;

determining, based on the received locations from the first UE and the second UE, that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other; and

determining, based on the proximity determination, at least one of a first or a second UE uplink long term evolution (LTE) resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs and the uplink utilizes frequency division multiple access.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the group of UEs are scheduled the same uplink or downlink resources.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the locations include geographic position information.