Method and apparatus for scheduling terminals in system with multiple antenna elements combining into common cell

An apparatus for scheduling terminals in a system comprising a common cell that comprises multiple antennas and multiple terminals, the apparatus comprising:

• a processor and memory having program code stored therein, the code executed on the processor configures the apparatus to:
• receive channel quality information fed back by the multiple terminals in the common cell, wherein the channel quality information is configured to reflect channel quality of channels between the multiple terminals and each antenna of the multiple antennas in the common cell;
• determine, according to the channel quality information fed back by the multiple terminals, all terminals which antenna is capable of serving;
• determine a first antenna among the multiple antennas in the common cell on a first time domain resource within a scheduling granularity, determine a terminal to be served on the first time domain resource, and begin to serve the terminal;
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• schedule all terminals which the first antenna is capable of serving on each remaining time domain resource within the scheduling granularity, determine a terminal to be served on each remaining time domain resource, and begin to serve the terminal, wherein the scheduling granularity for any terminal of the multiple terminals in the common cell is greater than a time difference between receiving the channel quality information fed back by the any terminal and beginning to serve the any terminal, and all the terminals the first antenna is capable of serving are determined according to all the terminals which each antenna is capable of serving.

A system with multiple antennas combining into a common cell, comprising a base station and multiple terminals, wherein:

• each terminal of the multiple terminals is configured to feed back channel quality information to the base station, wherein the channel quality information is configured to reflect channel quality of channels between each terminal of the multiple terminals and each antenna of the multiple antennas in the common cell;
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• the base station is configured to receive the channel quality information fed back by the multiple terminals in the common cell;
• determine, according to the channel quality information fed back by the multiple terminals, all terminals which each antenna is capable of serving;
• determine a first antenna among the multiple antennas in the common cell on a first time domain resource within a scheduling granularity, determine a terminal to be served on the first time domain resource, and begin to serve the terminal;
• and schedule all terminals which the first antenna is capable of serving on each remaining time domain resource within the scheduling granularity, determine a terminal to be served on each remaining time domain resource, and begin to serve the terminal, wherein the scheduling granularity for any terminal of the multiple terminals in the common cell is greater than a time difference between receiving the channel quality information fed back by the any terminal and beginning to serve the any terminal, and all the terminals which the first antenna is capable of serving are determined according to all the terminals which each antenna is capable of serving.