Patent ID: 11917609
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A method comprising:
at a network device,
determining, for terminal devices served by the network device, a minimum time resource assignment of uplink and downlink transmissions required by their respective given traffic demands under a given time resource configuration and a given bandwidth configuration;
determining an optimal time resource assignment of the uplink and downlink transmissions for their respective given traffic demands under the given bandwidth configuration based on the minimum time source assignment by means of an optimal incremental method; and
determining an optimal transmission power assignment of the uplink and downlink transmissions based on the optimal time resource assignment,
wherein the determining an optimal time resource assignment of the uplink and downlink transmissions comprises:
for each of remaining basic scheduling time units in the given time resource configuration, allocating it to a transmission link of a terminal device which could achieve a desirable decrement in power consumption due to increment of the allocated basic scheduling time unit.