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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Virgil Cimpu, Ottawa, CA;
Michael Petras, Nepean, CA;
Assignee:
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 52/36 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 52/24 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04W 52/244 (2013.01); H04W 52/367 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 5/0073 (2013.01); H04W 52/241 (2013.01); H04W 72/0473 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus assigning Physical Resource Blocks, PRBs, to a User Equipment, UE, in a wireless communication network having a plurality of cells, includes determining a Physical Cell Identifier, PCI, of a cell from the plurality of cells. Selecting a power level pattern of multiple PRBs for allocation, and assigning at least one of the multiple PRBs to the UE.