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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2015
Applicant:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Inventors:

Werner Coomans, Antwerp, BE;

Hungkei Chow, Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Jochen Maes, Antwerp, BE;

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 3/32 (2006.01); H04J 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04Q 11/04 (2006.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04B 3/32 (2013.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01); H04J 11/0026 (2013.01); H04J 11/0043 (2013.01); H04L 5/14 (2013.01); H04L 27/2691 (2013.01); H04Q 11/04 (2013.01); H04L 5/0005 (2013.01); H04Q 2213/19 (2013.01); H04Q 2213/292 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for assigning transmission resources () to communications between an access node () and a plurality of subscriber devices (to) coupled to a shared transmission medium. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises characterizing interference between respective ones of the plurality of subscriber devices over the shared transmission medium, grouping highly-interfering subscriber devices into respective interfering groups (GGGG) based on the so-characterized interference, and assigning disjoint transmission time intervals to upstream communication from any one subscriber device of any one interfering group and to downstream communication towards any other subscriber device of the same interfering group. The present invention also relates to a resource controller.


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