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

Claim 11:
12. 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 servce 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 resoure 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 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 the increment of the allocated basic scheduling time unit.