Methods and apparatus for communication scheduling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9380595-B2
Application number	US-201313871175-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2013
Priority date	Apr 26, 2013
Publication date	Jun 28, 2016
Grant date	Jun 28, 2016

Abstract

Systems and techniques for discontinuous reception management for user devices communicating using carrier aggregation. Information relating to discontinuous reception for a user device is received and used to determine discontinuous reception states of the user device. The information relating to discontinuous reception may include, for example, past scheduling information, information received at one scheduler and reporting scheduling information for another scheduler, or discontinuous reception information managed at a media access control layer of a base station. The discontinuous reception information may be used for scheduling of a plurality of carriers used for carrier aggregation by a user device, with scheduling for each carrier being performed by a scheduler dedicated to that carrier.

First claim

We claim:

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor;
memory storing computer program code;
wherein the memory storing the computer program code is configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:
receive information identifying discontinuous reception states of a user device operating in a wireless communication network, wherein the user device engages in communication in the network on at least two carriers served by at least two sch…

Assignees

• Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
• Nokia Solutions & Networks Oy

Inventors

• Kalyanasundaram Suresh
• Natarajan Balamurali
• Lester Joseph

Classifications

• H04W72/12 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/048

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/1205 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/28 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic