Dynamic allocation of transmission slots based on ue information
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorsWafik Abdel Shahid, Ming Shan Kwok
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Abstract
A radio access network (RAN) configured to provide allocations of transmission slots to user equipment (UEs) is described herein. The RAN may receive indicia about RAN conditions or about UEs in a vicinity of the RAN. Responsive to receiving the indicia, the RAN may determine, based at least in part on the indicia, a first allocation of uplink and downlink transmission slots to a first UE and a second allocation of uplink and downlink transmission slots to a second UE. The first allocation may differ from the second allocation. The RAN may then provide the first allocation to the first UE and the second allocation to the second UE.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a radio area network (RAN) device, indicia about RAN conditions or about user equipment (UE) in a vicinity of the RAN;
- determining, by the RAN device, based at least in part on the indicia, a first allocation of uplink and downlink transmission slots to a first UE and a second allocation of uplink and downlink transmission slots to a second UE, wherein the first allocation differs from the second allocation;
- and
- providing, by the RAN device, the first allocation to the first UE and the second allocation to the second UE.
A Radio Access Network (RAN) comprising:
- a processor;
- a transceiver coupled to the processor;
- and
- a scheduler executed by the processor to perform operations including:
- receiving indicia about RAN conditions or about user equipment (UE) in a vicinity of the RAN;
- determining based at least in part on the indicia, a first allocation of uplink and downlink transmission slots to a first UE and a second allocation of uplink and downlink transmission slots to a second UE, wherein the first allocation differs from the second allocation;
- and
- providing the first allocation to the first UE and the second allocation to the second UE.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions for programming a user equipment (UE) to perform operations comprising:
- sending a first request for a first allocation of uplink transmission slots and downlink transmission slots from a radio access network (RAN);
- receiving, from the RAN, the first allocation of uplink transmission slots and downlink transmission slots;
- determining that a location of the UE has changed or that an application active on the UE has changed;
- responsive to the determining, sending a second request for a second allocation of uplink transmission slots and downlink transmission slots from the RAN;
- and
- receiving, from the RAN, the second allocation of uplink transmission slots and downlink transmission slots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.