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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2014
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;
Jini Wen, Shanghai, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a joint scheduling method and apparatus. The method of the present invention is as follows: judging whether a CoMP user equipment exists in user equipments that wait to be scheduled in a sector that participates in joint scheduling; scheduling, if a CoMP user equipment exists in user equipments that wait to be scheduled, the CoMP user equipment that waits to be scheduled and assigning CoMP frequency band resources to the scheduled CoMP user equipment according to a size of frequency band resources required by the scheduled CoMP user equipment, where the CoMP frequency band resources are partial frequency band resources allocated from frequency band resources of the sector that participates in joint scheduling and are preferentially used by the CoMP user equipment. Embodiments of the present invention mainly apply to a joint scheduling process in a wireless communications system.