Patent ID: 9578622
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method configured to be performed by a computer processor of a primary station, for allocating electronic communication resources to one or more secondary stations for enabling communication between the primary station and at least one of the secondary stations, the method comprising: grouping the electronic communication resources into at least a first set of resources and a second set of resources; forming one or more groups of secondary stations, each group comprising one or more secondary stations; allocating a first resource of the first set of resources to a group of secondary stations, said first resource having a first index in the first set of resources; and allocating a second resource of the second set of resources to said group of secondary stations, said second resource having a second index in the second set of resources, said second index being equal to the first index plus an offset, said offset being an integer value generated based on a number of available resources.