Patent ID: 7929408

Claim:
A joint scheduling method for increasing frequency efficiency and fairness in a multi-channel distributed antenna system using frequency reuse and common control power, comprising: (a) selecting packets for transmission to Mobile Stations (MSs), said selecting taking into account a Quality of Service (QoS) in at least one of a Base Station (BS) and a Relay Station (RS), grouping the packets into packet groups, and mapping packets from the MSs to subchannels; (b) selecting packets from the packet groups formed in step (a), grouping links corresponding to the packets into a link group, and performing a joint power control on the link group; (c) performing link elimination and link addition in the link group until optimal solutions are achieved for the links of the link group in the joint power control; and (d) allocating channels to the links when the optimal solutions are achieved for the links in step (c) and updating the status of a user queue for at least one of the BS and the RS.