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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of an apparatus for determining clusters of access nodes includes a processing apparatus configured to determine a first cluster based on a first metric, wherein the first cluster comprises one or more access nodes for serving at least a first user node, assign further user nodes to be served by the one or more access nodes of the first cluster based on a spatial separation of the further user nodes and a second metric, and determine at least a further cluster by repeating the determining and assigning steps for further access nodes and user nodes.