Patent ID: 9439203
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of scheduling communication in a wireless communication network, comprising: determining a scheduling scheme to communicate data between a first access node and first wireless devices in communication with the first access node, and a second access node and second wireless devices in communication with the second access node, wherein the scheduling scheme comprises a first subframe and a second subframe; receiving a resource request from a network node, wherein the resource request comprises an indication of resources needed to transmit data addressed to one of the first wireless devices; determining an interference indication of the one of the first wireless devices after receiving the resource request; instructing the first access node to communicate with the first wireless devices during the first subframe of the scheduling scheme and instructing the first access node to transmit data addressed to the one of the first wireless devices during the second subframe of the scheduling scheme when the interference indication of the one of the first wireless devices meets an interference criteria; instructing the second access node to communicate with at least one of the second wireless devices that does not meet a signal condition threshold during the first subframe of the scheduling scheme, and to transmit data addressed to at least one of the second wireless devices that meets the signal condition threshold during the second subframe of the scheduling scheme; receiving at the second access node a message indicative of the data addressed to the at least one of the first wireless devices from the first access node during the second subframe of the scheduling scheme; and decoding at the second access node data transmitted from the second wireless devices that meet the signal condition threshold to the second access node during the second subframe based on the message indicative of the data addressed to the at least one of the first wireless devices during the second subframe of the scheduling scheme.