Patent ID: 8804676

Claim:
A method of scheduling users by a base station, the method comprising: providing, by the base station, connections for user equipments (UEs) using the base station via a radio interface, wherein the base station supports both connections to the UEs via Code Division Multiplexed connections in a Code Division Multiplexed mode, and via Time Division Multiplexed connections in a Time Division Multiplexed mode, and wherein providing the connections for the UEs comprises: (a) scheduling, by the base station, a limited number of the UEs for a Time Division Multiplexed connection; and (b) scheduling, by the base station, remaining UEs for a Code Division Multiplexed connection, wherein step (a) comprises moving a UE from the Code Division Multiplexed mode to the Time Division Multiplexed mode in response to a determination that a user activity measurement is higher than a first threshold value, and step (b) comprises moving a UE to the Code Division Multiplexed mode from the Time Division Multiplexed mode in response to a determination that a user activity measurement is lower than a second threshold value.