Patent ID: 9591624
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of scheduling communication in a wireless communication network, comprising: receiving at an access node an uplink scheduling request from a wireless device, wherein the access node communicates with the wireless device over a first frequency band and a second frequency band; determining at the access node an interference indicator associated with the wireless device; determining at the access node a first scheduling scheme for the first frequency band of the access node and a second scheduling scheme for the second frequency band of the access node based on the uplink scheduling request and the interference indicator, wherein the first scheduling scheme comprises a first number of uplink subframes within a first frame utilizing the first frequency band, and the second scheduling scheme comprises a second number of uplink subframes within a second frame utilizing the second frequency band, wherein the first number of uplink subframes does not overlap the second number of uplink subframes; and instructing the wireless device to continuously communicate uplink data to the access node during both the first number of uplink subframes of the first scheduling scheme and the second number of uplink subframes of the second scheduling scheme.