Patent ID: 9049670
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a base station communicating in a radio communications system, comprising: identifying, from among a plurality of mobile stations requesting service, a candidate transmitting set comprising a set of candidate mobile stations based on a ranking of signal-to-interference-plus noise ratios associated with respective candidate mobile stations; identifying all possible subsets of the candidate mobile stations in the candidate transmitting set; determining a total transmit power allowable for the possible subsets of candidate mobile stations; selecting, from among the plurality of possible subsets, a subset of the candidate mobile stations that maximizes a total number of bits processed by the base station from uplink transmissions transmitted by the selected subset in accordance with the total transmit power allowable; assigning transmission resources to each of the mobile stations in the selected subset of candidate mobile stations; and receiving the uplink transmissions from the selected subset of the candidate mobile stations.