Patent ID: 8160010

Claim:
A method of scheduling for a given transmission time slot, time being divided into time slots for time division multiplex transmission to a plurality of terminals, said method comprising: a. establishing a first list of active terminals having one or more data packets waiting to be sent, said terminals being connected to one or more transmitting stations of a group of transmitting stations; b. determining whether the first list contains one or more terminals; c. if the first list contains one or more terminals, selecting a terminal from the first list; d. adding the selected terminal to a second list; e. determining two or more transmitting stations to which the selected terminal is connected; f. if the first list contains one or more other terminals also connected to the transmitting stations determined in e, deleting said other terminal(s) from the first list; g. repeating b to f until the first list is empty; h. when the first list is empty, commanding transmission during the given time slot, to the terminal or terminals from the second list, the respective data packet or packets waiting to be sent; and i. if a terminal from the second list is connected to at least two transmitting stations, commanding transmission of the data packet waiting to be sent for this terminal from the at least two transmitting stations.