Resource allocation and scheduling among base stations

摘要

Various techniques are disclosed for wireless communications for providing a methodology and algorithm(s) to manage resources and schedule users in a coordinated way among a group of base stations, such as Femtocells, Picocells, self-organized Basestations, Access Points (APs) or mesh network nodes, or among the basestations in a two tiered networks, to improve the performance for individual user, individual Basestation (BTS), the overall systems or all of above.

主权项

1. A method of managing wireless resources comprising:
identifying a group of cells having at least two neighboring cells; identifying a group of users from the group of the cells; selecting a utility function based on a data rate for each user of the group of users; and allocating the wireless resources to each user based on a cost function for the group of users, wherein allocating the wireless resources is performed by coordinating among the cells, and wherein the cost function is based on a summation of utility functions for more than one user, the more than one user relating to more than one cell.