MULTI-USER SCHEDULING IN CELLULAR UPLINKS

• US 20130170366A1
• Filed: 07/30/2012
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Laboratories America Inc (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: PRASAD, Narayan, ZHANG, Honghai, RANGARAJAN, Sampath
• Granted Patent: US 9,191,962 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0039 Frequency-contiguous, i.e. with no allocation of frequencies for one user or terminal between the frequencies allocated to another
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

Disclosed herein are techniques, methods, and apparatus pertaining to a multi-user scheduling in 4G and 3GPP LTE cellular uplinks.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for cellular uplink scheduling comprising the steps of:

determine metrics of all combinations;

execute the LRT module;

update metrics of all combinations;

execute the LRT based module;

output the solution.