Patent ID: 9271246
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for use in a base station for allocating power in downlink transmissions for a user equipment, UE, in a Long Term Evolution, LTE, system, the method comprising: receiving, from the UE, a report comprising a Reference Signal Received Quality, RSRQ, indicating a current channel quality of a downlink transmission with multiple subcarriers; retrieving, from a resource management scheduler of the base station, a fairness factor used for achieving a fairness in scheduling between user equipments served by the base station; determining a combined factor, based on the received RSRQ and the retrieved fairness factor, for resource blocks, RBs, related to the downlink transmissions, said RBs comprising subcarriers pertaining to resources to be allocated to the UE; determining a power for the resource blocks, based on the determined combined factor; and allocating the determined power for the downlink transmissions for the UE.