Patent ID: 8401563
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory, machine-accessible medium having associated instructions that, when executed, results in a machine: identifying downlink resource requirements for transmission of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols to a plurality of users over a time unit of a wireless channel, wherein the downlink resource requirements are arranged as distributed virtual resource blocks; sorting the plurality of users according to their respective downlink resource requirements to provide a sorted list of the plurality of users, wherein a size of a first downlink resource requirement for a first user of the plurality of users is different than a size of a second downlink resource requirement for a second user of the plurality of users; computing indices for available downlink resource elements of the time unit of the wireless channel, wherein the available downlink resource elements are physical resource elements of one or more resource blocks, wherein individual resource blocks of the one or more resource blocks are to include information transmitted to more than one user; and assigning the available downlink resource elements to the plurality of users based at least in part on the sorted list and the computed indices.