Patent ID: 7684365

Claim:
A method comprising: populating a burst frame having an uplink sub-frame and a downlink sub-frame with at least a plurality of block pairs, each block pair including an uplink block and a down link block, populating the burst frame including: identifying a largest block pair, appending one of the uplink block and the downlink block of the largest block pair to a sub-frame string, and appending the other of the uplink block and the downlink block to a diagonally opposed sub-frame string; appending one of an unscheduled uplink block and an unscheduled downlink block of an unscheduled block pair to a shortest sub-frame string; appending the other of the unscheduled uplink block and unscheduled downlink block of the unscheduled block pair to a sub-frame string diagonally opposed to the shortest sub-frame string, and determining if a conflict exists between the unscheduled uplink block and the unscheduled downlink block.