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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2008
Patrick Hosein, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Wu, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Patrick Hosein, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Wu, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Future Wei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
System and method for utility-based scheduling for SDMA transmissions on an uplink of a wireless communications network. A method comprises assigning a utility function to each user in a set of users, selecting a set of selected users from the set of users, assigning uplink transmission resources to each user in the set of selected users, and transmitting a control message to each user in the set of selected users. The selecting comprises iteratively selecting up to K users one user at a time from the set of users, wherein a combination of the selected users maximally increases a value of the assigned utility functions, wherein K is a maximum number of users in the set of selected users.