Patent ID: 9137001
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a wireless communication system in which a base station of a cellular radio access network (RAN) normally engages in frequency selective scheduling (FSS) while serving a plurality of user equipment devices (UEs), a method comprising: determining that (i) an individual UE is being served with carrier aggregation and (ii) a processor load of the base station is greater than a threshold load; responsive to the determining that the individual UE is being served with carrier aggregation and the processor load of the base station is greater than the threshold load, causing the base station to allocate an extent of resources to the individual UE without engaging in FSS with the individual UE; determining that another UE is not being served with carrier aggregation; and responsive to the determining that the other UE is not being served with carrier aggregation, causing the base station to allocate an extent of resources to the other UE by engaging in FSS with the other UE.