Patent ID: 8838130
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. Method in a base station for allocating control elements in a message comprising a predetermined number of control elements, to user equipments to be scheduled, each user equipment is associated with a priority value, is adapted to communicate with the base station over a radio link and requires a certain number of control elements, depending on the link quality of the radio link, the method comprising the steps of: sorting user equipments to be scheduled in a scheduling priority list, based on the priority value of each respective user equipment, associating control elements in the message with user equipments by selecting user equipments from the scheduling priority list in priority order, one by one and summing up the total amount of required control elements by adding the required number of control elements of each selected user equipment respectively, until the predetermined number of control elements in the message is reached, if two or more user equipments have been associated with the same control elements, re-associate the control elements between the user equipments, and allocating the associated control elements in the message to the selected user equipments.