Method and apparatus for use in wireless communications
AssigneeMotorola Solutions, Inc.
InventorsBaruh Hason, Yael Dux, Menahem Raif
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Abstract
A method (700) of operation in a cellular communication system including at least one base station and, associated with the at least one base station, a plurality of user terminals in sectors to allow separate communications between the base station and the user terminals in different sectors, the method including providing (701, 703) a set of communication resource slots for distribution to the sectors for use in sending uplink traffic data, dividing (705, 707) at least part of the set into groups of slots having equal numbers of resource slots and allocating (709, 711) the groups of slots to the different sectors. A system, a base station and a mobile station operable using the method are also described.
Claims18
A method of operation in a cellular communication system including at least one base station and, associated with the at least one base station, a plurality of user terminals in sectors to allow separate communications between the base station and the user terminals in different sectors, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing according to an orthogonal frequency division multiple access protocol, a set of communication resource slots having dimensions in the frequency domain and the time domain for distribution to the sectors for use in sending uplink data bursts;
- dividing at least part of the set by the number of sectors into groups of slots having equal numbers of slots and allocating the divided groups of slots to the different sectors, each of the sectors being allocated a different one of the divided groups for uplink communications from the user terminals to the sectors, wherein the divided groups occupy in turn different sub-sets of available slots of the set when taken in a linear raster scan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.