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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2012
Yu Zhou, Herndon, VA (US);
Daniel Vivanco, Reston, VA (US);
Kyounghwan Lee, Herndon, VA (US);
Aik Chindapol, Washington, DC (US);
Yu Zhou, Herndon, VA (US);
Daniel Vivanco, Reston, VA (US);
Kyounghwan Lee, Herndon, VA (US);
Aik Chindapol, Washington, DC (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
In systems and methods of allocating carriers in a wireless communication network, a plurality of wireless devices in communication with an access node is ranked in a first ranking according to a required data rate of each wireless device. A carrier metric is determined for each of a plurality of carriers of the access node according to an actual data rate of each of the carriers and the required data rate of each wireless device, and each of the carriers is ranked in a second ranking for each of the plurality of wireless devices according to the determined carrier metric of each of the plurality of carriers. A first wireless device is selected from the first ranking, and a carrier from the second ranking is allocated to the selected first wireless device when the carrier provides the required data rate of the selected first wireless device.