Patent ID: 9706558
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A cellular telecommunications network having a first base station corresponding to a first cell and serving a cell area, the cellular telecommunications network also having a scheduler that is instantiated at least partially by a physical computer-readable storage medium of the cellular telecommunications network, the scheduler being adapted to: identify a first device set comprising high priority mobile devices, at least some devices in the first set being high priority cell-edge devices, and at least some devices in the first set being high priority cell-center devices; identify a second device set comprising low priority mobile devices, at least some devices in the second set being low priority cell-edge devices, and at least some devices in the second set being low priority cell-center devices; after identifying a plurality of resource blocks that are associated with the first base station, reserve a subset of resource blocks for use by the high and low priority cell-edge devices, whereby resource blocks that are assigned to the high and low priority cell-edge devices are selected only from the subset of resource blocks; using resource blocks selected only from the reserved subset, conduct a first assignment by assigning a resource block to each high priority cell-edge device; after the first assignment is complete, conduct a second assignment by assigning an available resource block to each high priority cell-center device, wherein the resource blocks assigned during the second assignment are selected from the plurality of resource blocks including the reserved subset of resource blocks; after the second assignment is complete, conduct a third assignment by assigning an unassigned resource block to each low priority cell-edge device, wherein the resource blocks assigned during the third assignment are selected only from the reserved subset; and after the third assignment is complete, conduct a fourth assignment by assigning a remaining resource block to each low priority cell-center device, wherein the resource blocks assigned during the fourth assignment are selected from the plurality of resource blocks including the reserved subset of resource blocks.