Distributed scheduling coordination for plural service areas

摘要

An apparatus (20) is associated with a telecommunications node (N) which serves a service area (S) which belongs to one set of plural sets of service areas comprising a network. The apparatus (20) divides a time resource for the node into plural phases in coordinated manner with other service areas. The apparatus (20) further generates a schedule for transmission/reception of user traffic for wireless terminals served by the node for plural consecutive phases. The schedule is generated so that during the plural consecutive phases the node can transmit and receive scheduled user traffic before receiving in the plural consecutive phases scheduling information from another node which serves another set of service areas.