Cooperative autonomous and scheduled resource allocation for a distributed communication system

摘要

An access network configured for wireless communication with access terminals within a sector. The access terminals comprise a plurality of flows. The access network comprises means for determining current power allocation grants for a subset of the plurality of flows, means for sending grant messages to the access terminals corresponding to the subset of the plurality of flows, the grant messages comprising the current power allocation grants and means for permitting the access terminals to autonomously determine current power allocations for remaining flows that are not in the subset.