Scheduling in wireless communication systems
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsRavi Kuchibhotla, Robert T. Love, Kenneth A. Stewart
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Abstract
A method in a wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in a frame structure wherein each frame includes multiple sub-frames, including grouping at least two wireless communication terminals in a group, assigning the group to less than all sub-frames constituting a communication frame, and assigning a radio resource assignment control channel of one or more assigned sub-frames to the group. The control channel is used to assign radio resources to one or more terminals of the group.
Claims12
A method in a wireless communication terminal, the method comprising:
- receiving a radio frame including a sequence of sub-frames, each sub-frame having a control portion, each control portion including a first control channel and a second control channel;
- monitoring at least a first control channel of a first sub-frame,
- determining whether a first radio resource has been assigned to the terminal by the first control channel of the first sub-frame;
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- monitoring a second control channel of a second sub-frame only if a condition associated with the first control channel of the first sub-frame is satisfied.
A method in a wireless communication terminal, the method comprising:
- receiving at least two distinct identities assigned by a wireless infrastructure entity;
- monitoring a control region in a radio frame;
- determining whether the terminal has been identified, in the control region, by at least one of the two distinct identities assigned to the terminal;
- determining a type of radio resource assigned to the terminal using the identity with which the terminal has been identified.
A method in a wireless communication terminal, the method comprising:
- determining an assignment of a radio resource to the terminal based on information in a control channel associated with a group to which the terminal is assigned by a wireless communication infrastructure entity;
- determining a radio resource mapping for the terminal based on information on the control channel,
- receiving radio resource assignment information, the radio resource information indicating assigned radio resource information that is valid for more than one sub-frame.
A method in a wireless communication terminal, the method comprising:
- determining an assignment of a radio resource to the terminal based on information in a control channel associated with a group to which the terminal is assigned by a wireless communication infrastructure entity;
- determining a radio resource mapping for the terminal based on information on the control channel,
- the control channel information including additional information associated with the terminal indicating where to obtain a resource assignment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.