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AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsKlaus Pedersen, Preben Mogensen, Guillaume Monghal, Akhilesh Pokhariyal
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Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement frequency domain packet scheduling in a fractional load situation by detecting a fractional load situation in a wireless communications network; receiving information indicative of signal conditions in a cell; using the information indicative of signal conditions in the cell to determine physical resource blocks in use in a nearby cell; determining how many physical resource blocks are need to perform packet transmission operations in dependence on packet traffic in the cell; selecting particular physical resource blocks to be used to perform initial packet transmission operations in the cell downlink so as to avoid those physical resource blocks in use in the nearby cell; and when selecting physical resource blocks to perform future packet transmission operations in the cell downlink, favoring those physical resource blocks used to perform initial packet transmission operations.
An apparatus comprising a scheduler, the scheduler configured to perform scheduling of packets to be transmitted in a downlink of a cell of a wireless communications network during a fractional load period, the scheduler further configured to determine a size of a set of channel components to be used to transmit the packets in the downlink in dependence on packet traffic conditions;
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An apparatus comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer readable memory medium tangibly embodying a computer program executable by a digital processor, wherein when the computer program is executed by the digital processor, the computer program is configured to cause an apparatus operative in a wireless communications system to perform packet scheduling in a fractional load situation by assigning packets to channel components in a downlink of the wireless communications system in such a way so as to reduce inter-cell interference;
The computer program product 35 wherein the computer program, when executed, is further configured to operate the apparatus to determine a size of a set of channel components to be used to transmit packets in dependence on the derived information reflective of channel component utilization by adjacent cells of the wireless telecommunications network.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable memory medium storing a computer readable program executable by a digital processor, wherein when executed by the digital processor the computer program is configured to operate apparatus to perform packet scheduling by assigning packets to channel components in a downlink of the wireless communications system;
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