Wireless scheduling systems and methods
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsRobert Novak, Mo-Han Fong
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Abstract
Methods and devices are described herein for prioritizing a plurality of packets for potential transmission and in an iterative fashion: i) determining power requirements for control channel signalling associated with a highest priority packet not yet analyzed for resource assignment; and ii) assigning resources for said highest priority packet if sufficient power for control channel signalling is available and sufficient resources for said highest priority packet are available. A further method includes assigning a plurality of users to one of a plurality of signalling groups, wherein said plurality of users within said one of a plurality of groups use a first of a plurality of HARQ interlace offsets for their first respective HARQ transmissions.
Claims12
A method comprising:
- prioritizing a plurality of packets for potential transmission;
- in an iterative fashion:
- determining power requirements for control channel signalling associated with a highest priority packet not yet analyzed for resource assignment;
- and
- assigning resources for said highest priority packet if sufficient power for control channel signalling is available and sufficient resources for said highest priority packet are available;
- wherein said determining power requirements comprises reducing said power requirements for said control channel signalling until said power requirements are less than or equal to the available power;
- wherein reducing said power requirements is performed only for retransmissions.
A transmitter configured to:
- prioritize a plurality of packets for potential transmission;
- in an iterative fashion:
- determine power requirements for control channel signalling associated with a highest priority packet not yet analyzed for resource assignment;
- and
- assign resources for said highest priority packet if sufficient power for control channel signalling is available and sufficient resources for said highest priority packet are available;
- the transmitter further configured to reduce said power requirements for said control channel signalling until said power requirements are less than or equal to the available power;
- wherein reducing said power requirements is used for retransmissions only.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions, that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to implement a method comprising:
- prioritizing a plurality of packets for potential transmission;
- in an iterative fashion:
- determining power requirements for control channel signalling associated with a highest priority packet not yet analyzed for resource assignment;
- and
- assigning resources for said highest priority packet if sufficient power for control channel signalling is available and sufficient resources for said highest priority packet are available
- wherein said determining power requirements comprises reducing said power requirements for said control channel signalling until said power requirements are less than or equal to the available power;
- wherein reducing said power requirements is performed only for retransmissions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.