Patent ID: 9438404
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for group resource allocation (GRA), comprising: determining, by circuitry, available modulation and coding schemes (MCS) and packet sizes; computing a resource size matrix; choosing effective combinations of MCS and packet sizes from the resource size matrix; defining a first parameter set using the effective combinations of MCS and packet sizes; forming a first group of users that use the first parameter set, the first group of users formed based at least in part on parameters specific to the first group of users; forming a second group of users that use the first parameter set; generating a first subframe group in a first frame having a first group identification (ID) number for the first group, wherein the first subframe group is assigned the first parameter set; generating a second subframe group in the first frame having a second group ID number for the second group, wherein the second subframe group is assigned the first parameter set; determining a reporting frequency for hierarchical reporting of a first channel quality indicator (CQI) value, wherein the reporting frequency is based at least in part on a periodicity of forming groups of users; receiving first CQI information over a first node of a hierarchical tree, the first CQI information to comprise the first CQI value and a node value of the first node; determining a set of subbands of a second frame; and receiving second CQI information over a best-m subbands of the set of subbands via best-m reporting that is periodically triggered, the second CQI information to comprise a second CQI value, a reporting frequency of the best-m reporting to be less than the reporting frequency of the hierarchal reporting.