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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:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Narayan Prasad, Willow Grove, PA (US);

Mohammad Khojastepour, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);

Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Assignee:

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/10 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0032 (2013.01); H04W 16/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/048 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for assigning users to nodes include assigning user devices to respective macro nodes in a wireless network. Each of the user devices is assigned to a respective pico node in the wireless network. Each respective pico node is associated with the same macro node that the respective user device is assigned to. Resource allocation fractions are assigned to all pico nodes and all macro nodes in the wireless network based on the assignment of each of the plurality of user devices respective macro nodes and pico nodes.


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