Patent ID: 7885295

Claim:
A method of managing communication resources in a wireless communication system comprising multiple transmitter nodes said method comprises the steps of: providing a default resource allocation specifying when to use multi-node-adapted and single-node-adapted communication resources for said multiple transmitter nodes to transmit information, where a multi-node-adapted communication resource is adapted for time-coordinated transmissions of multi-node-associated information and a single-node-adapted communication resources is adapted for transmission of single-node-associated information; estimating an expected amount of at least one of said multi-node-associated information and said single-node-associated information to be transmitted by a subset of said multiple transmitter nodes; and dynamically adjusting said default resource allocation, for said subset of said multiple transmitter nodes, by allocating, based on said estimated expected amount of information, a multi-node-adapted communication resource for transmission of single-node-associated information or a single-node-adapted communication resource for time-coordinated transmissions of multi-node-associated information.