Patent ID: 8965388
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of pre-scheduling pooling of resource units of at least one module in a node of a wireless communication network, the at least one module serving a plurality of cells, the method comprising: determining, for a transmission time interval, a total number of resource units available for allocation to the plurality of cells by the at least one module; estimating a number of resource units to be consumed by each of the plurality of cells based at least in part on resource limits for each of the plurality of cells and resource limits of the at least one module; determining a number of resource units to be allocated to each cell served by the at least one module based on the estimated resource consumption of each cell, the resource limits of each cell and the resource limits of the at least one module; determining, for the transmission time interval, a prioritized list of queues having information to be transmitted, each queue belonging to a corresponding cell of the plurality of cells; determining, for the transmission time interval, in an order of priority of the queues, a number of resources units estimated to be allocated to a queue based at least in part on a number of resource units required to empty the queue; and allocating, using a processor, the determined number of resource units based at least in part on whether a number of resource units to empty a queue of a cell exceeds one of a number of unallocated resource units of the at least one module and a number of unallocated resource units of the cell.