Method in a base station for allocating communication resources to a user equipment, base station, computer program and computer program product

摘要

The invention relates to a method 50 in a base station 2 for allocating communication resources to a user equipment 4, 5, . . . ,n. The base station 2 supports the use of a single physical resource block, PRB, scheduling resource for two or more user equipment 4, 5, . . . ,n. The method 50 comprises: receiving 51, from a user equipment 4, 5, . . . ,n, a scheduling request on the PRB scheduling resource; and granting access 52 to a selected user equipment 4, 5, . . . ,n of the two or more user equipment 4, 5, . . . ,n using the PRB scheduling resource. The invention also relates to a base station, computer program and computer program products.

主权项

1. A method in a network node for allocating communication resources , the method comprising:
selecting, from a set of available Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs), a single PRB for use in transmitting to the network node a scheduling request (SR); allocating to each user equipment (UE) included in a set of two or more UEs the selected single PRB, such that each of said UEs may transmit an SR to the network node on the same single PRB; receiving an SR transmitted by one of said UEs on the allocated single PRB; and in response to receiving the SR: a) determining which UE in the set of two or more UEs is the highest prioritized UE; b) selecting the determined highest prioritized UE; and c) granting access to the selected UE.