Patent ID: 9602266
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04J,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for scheduling a plurality of component carriers that are to be aggregated in a carrier aggregation at a network node, the method comprising: receiving, at the network node, an indication from a mobile device of an in-device coexistence problem, the indication comprising parameters related to the in-device coexistence problem; determining, from the parameters in the indication, one or more of the plurality of component carriers of the carrier aggregation that are affected by the in-device coexistence problem; applying a time-domain solution to at least one of the one or more affected component carriers; determining if the time-domain solution resolves the in-device coexistence problem; in response to determining that the time-domain solution does not resolve the in-device coexistence problem, applying a frequency-domain solution to reassign one or more of the affected component carriers comprising: determining that the frequency-domain solution to reassign the component carriers does not resolve the in-device coexistence problem; and in response to the determining that the reassignment of the component carriers does not resolve the in-device coexistence problem, initiating a handover of the mobile device to a new carrier aggregation comprising component carriers that are not affected by the in-device coexistence problem.