Patent ID: 8675605

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a processing system comprising at least one processor and a memory storing a set of computer instructions, in which the processing system is arranged to: utilize radio resource control signaling to configure a user device for N secondary cells on license-exempt channels w i in a frequency hopping channel set where i=1, 2, . . . N, in which N is an integer at least equal to one, each of the N secondary cells occupies a number of one or more of the channels w i , the channels w i are equal bandwidth, and the number of channels is configurable by an access node per secondary cell; utilize cross-carrier scheduling on a primary cell to schedule a frequency hopping resource block h i on the i th license-exempt channel w i on at least one of the N secondary cells; and adapt parameters for the frequency hopping based on measurements of at least some of the license-exempt channels w i received from at least the user device.