METHOD FOR SCHEDULING USER EQUIPMENT IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to a method for scheduling user terminals in a heterogeneous network comprising a plurality of cooperating cells constituted by at least one macro cell and at least one small cell having at least partially overlapping coverage, each cooperating cell having corresponding radio resource blocks assigned to their respective user terminals, wherein for a centralized controller to assign a radio resource block of the macro cell, a utility metric associated with said radio resource block of the macro cell is determined for each combination of user terminal of the macro cell and of a user terminal of the small cell assigned to the corresponding radio resource block, and the radio resource block of the macro cell is assigned to the user terminal of the macro cell that maximizes said second utility metric.