ENHANCED SCHEDULING OF RESOURCES BASED ON USE OF CARRIER AGGREGATION

摘要

Disclosed is a method and corresponding apparatus for enhanced scheduling of resources based on use of carrier aggregation. The method involves determining that (i) an individual UE is being served with carrier aggregation or with greater than a threshold amount of frequency and (ii) a processor load of the base station is greater than a threshold load. The method then involves, responsive to the determining that the individual UE is being served with carrier aggregation or with greater than a threshold amount of frequency and that the processor load of the base station is greater than the threshold load, causing the base station to allocate an extent of resources to the individual UE without using FSS.

主权项

1. In a wireless communication system in which a base station of a cellular radio access network (RAN) normally engages in frequency selective scheduling (FSS) while serving a plurality of user equipment devices (UEs), a method comprising:
determining that (i) an individual UE is being served with carrier aggregation and (ii) a processor load of the base station is greater than a threshold load; responsive to the determining that the individual UE is being served with carrier aggregation and the processor load of the base station is greater than the threshold load, causing the base station to allocate an extent of resources to the individual UE without engaging in FSS with the individual UE; determining that another UE is not being served with carrier aggregation; and responsive to the determining that the other UE is not being served with carrier aggregation, causing the base station to allocate an extent of resources to the other UE by engaging in FSS with the other UE.