Patent ID: 9438408
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for use in a wireless cellular communications system, according to which method a controlling node controls the transmissions to and from users in a cell, and transmissions are made in subframes with a certain extension in time and over a certain amount of subcarriers (Of) in frequency, said subframes comprising a number of subelements, the method being used for scheduling a first and a second channel in one and the same subframe, the method comprising the steps of: distributing transmission resources needed for the first channel into a first set of resource groups; assigning the resource groups of the first set to subelements in the subframe in a predetermined fashion, wherein each subelement comprises a group of four time-frequency resource elements; assigning a symbol value to all subelements in the subframe which have not been assigned a resource groups of the first set; distributing transmission resources needed for the second channel into a second set of resource groups; and assigning, in a predetermined fashion, the resource groups of the second set to subelements in the subframe by means of said symbol values, wherein assigning the resource groups of the second set comprises: