Patent ID: 9300449
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for scheduling user data packets on a common channel of an access node in a radio access network, said common channel being common and shared by a number of telecommunications operators, wherein the scheduling of the user data packets is performed in consecutive transmission time intervals (TTIs) and in dependence on which scheduling said operators serve different user packets, said method comprising: determining an operator to be prioritized in a next TTI by performing a calculation based on the share, per operator, of TTIs with competition that fall within a sliding window, and further based on a sliding window list that keeps information based on a predetermined number of previous, consecutive TTIs within the sliding window, where a TTI with competition is a TTI in which data packets handled by different operators are competing for the same common channel resources in the beginning of the TTI and not all data packets have been scheduled for transmission during the TTI, and where a prioritized operator is an operator whose data packets are to be scheduled before the data packets of competing operators in the next TTI; scheduling the next TTI as a result of the determination of the prioritized operator; and including said next TTI, when scheduled, into the sliding window and performing information updating of the sliding window list.