Patent ID: 8135439
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for multi-user resource scheduling in a radio communication system having a radio base station with narrow beam capabilities, wherein said method is based on selecting multiple mobile users to be scheduled for service using multiple narrow antenna beams during a predetermined transmission time interval, characterized by: selecting, for each antenna beam of at least a subset of said multiple antenna beams, at least two mobile users for service using the respective antenna beam during said transmission time interval; and distributing power resources to the antenna beams for use during said transmission time interval based on balancing the power resources among different antenna beams, wherein said narrow antenna beams are partially overlapping, and said step of distributing power resources to the antenna beams comprises the step of allocating, when there are no active mobile users in a given beam, more power resources to antenna beams that are direct neighbors of the given antenna beam than to more distant antenna beams to balance the power resource distribution over the whole area covered by the cell.