METHOD OF COMBINED USER AND COORDINATION PATTERN SCHEDULING OVER VARYING ANTENNA AND BASE-STATION COORDINATION PATTERNS IN A MULTI-CELL ENVIRONMENT
First Claim
1. A wireless communication system comprising:
- a plurality of user terminals;
a plurality of antennas to communicate with the plurality of user terminals, wherein the plurality of antennas are grouped into coordination patterns that specify which antennas operate together as a cluster to coordinate transmissions with a subset of the plurality of user terminals, and further wherein the defined pairs of the antenna sets and associated user sets vary over transmission resources based on coordination pattern changes such that different sets of antennas in the plurality of antennas are grouped together at different times to coordinate transmissions to different subsets of users; and
at least one controller to execute at least one scheduling algorithm to schedule transmission with user terminals by specifying which user terminal to schedule for service by which set of antennas and on which transmission resource and with what transmission rate.
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Abstract
A method and system is disclosed herein for scheduling in a multi-cell environment. In one embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of user terminals; a plurality of base stations to communicate with the plurality of user terminals, wherein the plurality of antennas from the base stations are grouped into coordination patterns that specify which antennas operate together as a cluster to coordinate transmissions with a subset of the plurality of user terminals, and further wherein defined pairs of the antenna sets and associated user sets vary over transmission resources based on coordination pattern changes such that different sets of antennas in the plurality of antennas are grouped together on different resources to coordinate transmissions to different subsets of users; and at least one controller to execute at least one scheduling algorithm to schedule transmissions with user terminals by specifying which user terminal to schedule for service by which sets of antennas and on which transmission resource and with what transmission rate.
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26 Claims
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1. A wireless communication system comprising:
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a plurality of user terminals; a plurality of antennas to communicate with the plurality of user terminals, wherein the plurality of antennas are grouped into coordination patterns that specify which antennas operate together as a cluster to coordinate transmissions with a subset of the plurality of user terminals, and further wherein the defined pairs of the antenna sets and associated user sets vary over transmission resources based on coordination pattern changes such that different sets of antennas in the plurality of antennas are grouped together at different times to coordinate transmissions to different subsets of users; and at least one controller to execute at least one scheduling algorithm to schedule transmission with user terminals by specifying which user terminal to schedule for service by which set of antennas and on which transmission resource and with what transmission rate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method comprising:
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varying clusters of antennas into new coordination patterns that specify which antennas operate together as a cluster to coordinate transmissions with a subset of the plurality of user terminals, wherein clusters vary over transmission resources based on coordination pattern changes such that different sets of antennas in the plurality of antennas are grouped together at different times to coordinate transmissions to different subsets of users; and executing at least one scheduling algorithm to schedule transmissions with user terminals by specifying which user terminal to schedule in which cluster and on which transmission resource and transmission rates for the user terminals. - View Dependent Claims (18, 25)
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19. A method for scheduling user terminals in a wireless communication system having a plurality of user terminals and a plurality of antennas that are grouped based on coordination patterns that specify which antennas operate together as a cluster to coordinate transmissions with a subset of the plurality of user terminals, the method comprising:
for each coordination cluster specified in a coordination pattern, performing operations including receiving information required to implement a scheduling criterion; creating information to make a scheduling decision; obtaining an estimate of a rate the system using the set of antennas can support to a user terminal; selecting the user terminal for scheduling based on the rate estimate; determining the rate a user is to be given if it is scheduled. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26)
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