Scheduling communication in a wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10721753-B2
Application number	US-201916283172-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 22, 2019
Priority date	Nov 12, 2010
Publication date	Jul 21, 2020
Grant date	Jul 21, 2020

Abstract

A network device, based on received location from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE may determine that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other. Based on the proximity determination, the network device may provide at least one of the first and second UE uplink LTE resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A network device comprising:
a transceiver; and
a processor operationally coupled to the transceiver;
wherein the processor is configured to:
receive, via the transceiver, communications from a first user equipment (UE) indicating a location of the first UE;
receive, via the transceiver, communications from a second UE indicating a location of the second UE;
determine, based on the received locations from the first UE and the second UE, that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other; and
determine, based on the proximity determination, at least one of a first or a second UE uplink long term evolution (LTE) resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs and the uplink utilizes frequency division multiple access.

2. The network device of claim 1 , wherein the group of UEs are scheduled the same uplink or downlink resources.

3. The network device of claim 1 , wherein the locations include geographic position information.

4. A method performed by a network device, the method comprising:
receiving communications from a first user equipment (UE) indicating a location of the first UE;
receiving communications from a second UE indicating a location of the second UE;
determining, based on the received locations from the first UE and the second UE, that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other; and
determining, based on the proximity determination, at least one of a first or a second UE uplink long term evolution (LTE) resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs and the uplink utilizes frequency division multiple access.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the group of UEs are scheduled the same uplink or downlink resources.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the locations include geographic position information.

Assignees

• Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 Llc

Inventors

• Wilkinson Timothy
• Speight Timothy James

Classifications

• H04W72/541

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• H04W72/542 Primary

  using measured or perceived quality · CPC title

• H04W72/54 Primary

  based on quality criteria · CPC title

• H04L5/16 Primary

  Half-duplex systems; Simplex/duplex switching; Transmission of break signals {non-automatically inverting the direction of transmission} · CPC title

• H04W72/1268

  of uplink data flows · CPC title