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

Claim 7:
8. A network device comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code;
the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the network device to:
determine, 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;
determine 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
determine an optimal transmission power assignment of the uplink and downlink transmissions based on the optimal time resource assignment,
wherein the determing a minimum time resource assignment of uplink and downlink transmissions comprises determining minimum numbers of uplink basic scheduling time units and minimum numbers of downlink basic scheduling time units for the terminal devices meeting their respective given traffic demands in case of the terminal devices and the network device using their respective maximum transmission powers under the given bandwidth configuration, so that a sum of the minimum numbers of uplink basic scheduling time units and the numbers of downlink basic scheduling time units meets the constraint of time resource configuration.