Patent ID: 9277532
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for allocating downlink transmissions to a plurality of user equipments (UEs) from a base station, the method comprising: allocating downlink transmission air-time of the base station to a plurality of groups; associating each of the plurality of UEs to the plurality of groups, a throughput of each associated UE in a same group being affected by remaining UEs in the same group; determining a resource sharing mode associated with each of the plurality of groups, the resource sharing mode being one of a first mode and a second mode, the base station allocating a same throughput to each associated UE in the same associated group in the first mode and the base station allocating a same transmission time to each associated UE in the same associated group in the second mode; determining downlink transmission slices associated with the plurality of groups, each of the downlink transmission slices being associated with a queue, wherein the determining the downlink transmission slices includes determining weights for the queues, respectively, and each weight indicates a percentage of total downlink transmission air-time for the same associated group; and for each queue, determining a token to be removed from a bucket associated with the queue, the token being based on a cumulative frame transmission time for a previously transmitted frame, each bucket having a size.