Patent ID: 9668141
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: segmenting multiple nodes of a communication system into multiple clustering plans, each clustering plan comprising multiple clusters that do not overlap with one another within that clustering plan, at least one of the clusters of one clustering plan overlapping at least one of the clusters of at least one other clustering plan, wherein one of the nodes is a boundary node in at least one cluster of at least one clustering plan and a non-boundary node in at least one other cluster of at least one other clustering plan; assigning network resources to individual clustering plans of the multiple clustering plans in accordance with the segmented multiple nodes in the multiple clustering plans, wherein each node of the multiple nodes is assigned resources from at least one of the clustering plans in which the node is a non-boundary node; and performing optimization individually for each cluster in each clustering plan.