Resource assignment systems and methods

摘要

In a wireless communication system, a base station assigns resources to mobile stations using indices. Each index is associated with an assignment schedule for assigning resources. Once the base station determines an assignment schedule to assign particular resources, it encodes the schedule into an index and transmits it. A mobile station receives the index and decodes it to recover the assignment schedule. Both the base station and the mobile station may use look-up tables and/or algorithms for storing or generating indices associated with assignment schedules. To assign resources so as to indicate transmission characteristics over the resources, the base station transmits assignment blocks. Each assignment block indicates original transmission, retransmission, persistent assignment, non-persistent assignment, HARQ signaling, RAS-HARQ signaling, DRCH assignment, and/or LRCH assignment.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
determining a number of resources to be assigned to each of a plurality of mobile stations; selecting one of a plurality of assignment schedules based on the determined number of resources assigned to each of the plurality of mobile stations, wherein the selected assignment schedule includes assignments of resources for more than one of the plurality of mobile stations; determining an assignment schedule index associated with the selected assignment schedule, wherein determining the assignment schedule index associated with the selected assignment schedule comprises using an algorithm based on a table of a number of possible combination assignment schedules for various numbers of resources and various numbers of mobile stations; and transmitting the determined assignment schedule index.