Patent ID: 9468012
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: transmitting a beacon from a first access node to a first user equipment associated with the first access node and also to a second user equipment associated with a second access node, where the beacon includes information indicating a priority of the first access node with respect to a radio resource allocation; and receiving feedback from the first user equipment associated with the first access node, where the feedback includes information indicating a priority of the second access node, where the first access node relinquishes radio resources if the second access node has a higher priority and has a need for additional resources, wherein the priority is configured to provide a penalty for reserving more resources than are actually needed by the first access node and/or the second access node, the method further comprises computing a value of the priority based on an average amount of the radio resources reserved in the past; and the value of the priority is computed by implementing the following equation: wherein pr=priority value t=time unit, α=weighting factor or forgetting factor, and