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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2017
Applicants:
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Narayan Prasad, Willow Grove, PA (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Caroline Liang, Surrey, GB;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/14 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 52/24 (2009.01); H04W 16/32 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1226 (2013.01); H04L 5/0035 (2013.01); H04L 5/0075 (2013.01); H04L 5/0082 (2013.01); H04W 52/146 (2013.01); H04W 52/244 (2013.01); H04W 16/32 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for associating users to transmission points over an uplink (UL) of a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is presented. The computer-implemented method includes communicating, via the processor, with a cluster of transmission points, associating each user to one transmission point within the cluster of transmission points by a two-stage procedure, and performing sub-frame scheduling independently by each transmission point within the cluster of transmission points over a set of users associated with.