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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2018
Applicant:
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Inventors:
Saeed Reza Khosravirad, Toronto, CA;
Harish Viswanathan, Morristown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 72/121 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 72/121 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided including determining a strength of a channel to each of a plurality of user equipments in a wireless multi-user network; scheduling first downlink resources for transmitting first downlink messages to a first group of the user equipments including the user equipments having the strongest channels; and scheduling second resources for transmitting second downlink messages to a second group of the remaining user equipments using a combination of broadcasting and cooperative relaying.