Patent ID: 9647807
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for allocating radio resources by a coordinating wireless communications device in a wireless communications network including a plurality of wireless communications devices, the method comprising: obtaining a plurality of supported narrow-band channels in the wireless communications network; selecting a primary channel from the supported narrow-band channels and using the primary channel to communicate with the plurality of wireless communications devices; organizing the plurality of wireless communications devices into one or more communication groups; and assigning one of the one or more communication groups a non-overlapping operating channel for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU MIMO) communication with the coordinating wireless communications device, wherein the non-overlapping operating channel contains at least two of the plurality of supported narrow-band channels in a coalesced manner; wherein the plurality of wireless communications devices in the one of the one or more communication groups communicate with the coordinating wireless communications device concurrently.