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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
May. 29, 2019
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/121 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/121 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method in a network device for scheduling terminal devices. The method includes: determining a grouping policy based on one or more attributes of terminal devices served by the network device in a previous time period; dividing terminal devices to be scheduled into a number of groups in accordance with the grouping policy; assigning a set of resources to each of the groups; and scheduling the terminal devices to be scheduled in each of the groups in the set of resources assigned to that group.