Patent ID: 8358678
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in one or more communications nodes in a radio telecommunications system, comprising: defining a first group of mobile terminal communications and a second group of mobile terminal communications to be serviced in a cell area; identifying a basic frequency hopping sequence to be used for both the first and second group of mobile terminal communications, where each hop in the basic frequency hopping sequence corresponds to a time-frequency radio resource; determining an offset from the basic frequency hopping sequence corresponding to each mobile terminal communication in the first and second groups; using the offset for each mobile terminal communication to generate an assigned frequency hopping sequence corresponding to that mobile terminal communication; wherein at least some of the assigned frequency hopping sequences overlap such that a first mobile terminal communication from the first group and a second mobile terminal communication from the second group simultaneously use the same time-frequency radio resource during one hop in their corresponding assigned frequency hopping sequences, and wherein the first mobile terminal communication uses a first time-frequency radio resource during another hop in their corresponding assigned frequency hopping sequence, and wherein the second mobile terminal communication uses a second time-frequency radio resource different from the first time-frequency radio resource during the another hop in their corresponding assigned frequency hopping sequence.