Patent ID: 8284723

Claim:
A method for managing transmission resources in a cellular communications network comprising a plurality of cells, each associated with a base station, the network comprising at least two radio communications terminals, an authorized list of available transport formats being associated with each of the terminals, wherein the method comprises: creating a shortened list for each of said terminals by implementing the following algorithm: initializing an empty shortened list; and scanning the authorized list of available transport formats associated with said terminal and for each transport format: if, in said authorized list, there is a transport format for transporting a number of encoded information bits smaller than or equal to the number of encoded information bits transported by said transport format and having a spectral efficiency greater than that of said transport format, then passing to the next transport format in said authorized list, else, adding said transport format to said shortened list and passing to the next transport format in said authorized list; and optimizing frequency resources used by said terminals present in said network, comprising sub-steps of: selecting a specific transport format for each of said terminals from the shortened list of transport formats, and allocating a frequency band to each of said terminals, dimensioned as a function of the selected transport format.