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Allocating resource units to a mobile station

  • US 8,737,326 B2
  • Filed: 09/22/2009
  • Issued: 05/27/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • permuting, by a superordinate station in a wireless network, physical resource units to logical resource units, the physical resource units of sequential logical resource units being noncontiguous;

    in response to a plurality of mobile stations entering a cell served by the superordinate station, sending at least one allocation message allocating a block of sequential logical resource units to each of the plurality of mobile stations, each of the allocated blocks being contiguous with at least one other allocated block;

    in response to a first mobile station selected from the plurality of mobile stations exiting the cell served by the superordinate station and a second mobile station selected from the plurality of mobile stations exiting the cell served by the superordinate station, de-allocating at least a first block of sequential logical resource units from the first mobile station and a second block of sequential logical resource units from the second mobile station, the first block of sequential logical resource units being noncontiguous with the second block of logical resource units; and

    in response to a new mobile station entering the cell served by the superordinate station, sending at least one re-allocation message allocating the first block of sequential logical resource units and at least a portion of the second block of logical resource units to the new mobile station.

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