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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2012
Applicant:

Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Harish Viswanathan, Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Xingqin Lin, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 16/32 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/1215 (2013.01); H04W 16/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment of the method includes allocating, using a network management entity, at least one of a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs) of a first wireless access technology for utilization by a second wireless access technology. A spectrum of the first wireless access technology is embedded within a spectrum of the second wireless access technology. The method further includes communicating, using the network management entity, a message to a controller of the first wireless access technology identifying the PRBs not allocated for utilization by the second wireless access technology.


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