Patent ID: 8855068

Claim:
A method for determining time-frequency resources, comprising: determining, by a first scheduling device, a coordinately scheduled user equipment, UE, that belongs to a anchor cell corresponding to the first scheduling device, wherein the coordinately scheduled UE is a UE that can receive signals from the anchor cell and another coordinated cell; determining, by the first scheduling device, the coordinated cell corresponding to the coordinately scheduled UE; sending, by the first scheduling device, information of time-frequency resources preallocated to the coordinately scheduled UE to a second scheduling device corresponding to the coordinated cell, and indicating the second scheduling device to determine whether to perform coordinated scheduling on the coordinately scheduled UE according to the information of the time-frequency resources; and determining, by the first scheduling device, time-frequency resources allocated to the coordinately scheduled UE, according to the result whether the second scheduling device performs coordinated scheduling on the coordinately scheduled UE.