Patent ID: 8913547

Claim:
A method for pairing terminals, comprising: selecting a first terminal to be paired with a second terminal; pairing the first terminal with a dummy terminal by adding dummy data for the dummy terminal into a radio resource initially occupied by the first terminal, wherein the power of the dummy terminal is adjusted so that it is less than the power of the first terminal, and wherein the dummy data is modulated by a quaternary modulation scheme and the dummy data is not de-modulated by the first terminal; wherein the radio resource is orthogonally allocated into a first sub-channel and a second sub-channel, and wherein the first sub-channel is used for actual data of the first terminal and the second sub-channel is used for the dummy terminal; receiving a measurement report message with respect to the first sub-channel from the first terminal; pairing the first terminal with the second terminal instead of the dummy terminal, if the same radio resource is suitable to be subsequently occupied by both the first and second terminals based on the received measurement report message.