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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Ashwin Sridharan, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Vaneet Aggarwal, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Rittwik Jana, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Howard Karloff, New York, NY (US);
Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Vinay Anant Vaishampayan, Summit, NJ (US);
Robert Margolies, New York, NY (US);
Gil Zussman, New York, NY (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer-readable storage device, and apparatus for allocating a plurality of timeslots of each channel of a plurality of channels in a wireless network are disclosed. For example, the method determines a location and a velocity for each user endpoint device of a plurality of user endpoint devices, estimates a future data rate for each user endpoint device at the location, estimates future timeslot allocations of each channel of the plurality of channels in the wireless network in accordance with the future data rate that is predicted for each user endpoint device, and allocates each timeslot of the plurality of timeslots of each channel of the plurality of channels in the wireless network to a user endpoint device of the plurality of user endpoint devices in accordance with the future timeslot allocations that are estimated for each channel.