SCHEDULING IN COORDINATED MULTI - POINT TRANSMISSION SCHEME

摘要

The present invention provides methods, a user equipment, a base station and a computer program product for managing assignments between user equipments and cooperation areas. The present invention discloses receiving, at a base station belonging to a cooperation area, a connection request message from a user equipment to be connected to the cooperation area, the connection request message including a parameter indicating preference information the user equipment ascribes being connected to the cooperation area, determining, on the basis of the parameter, whether the user equipment is allowed to connect to the cooperation area, forwarding a connection acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement message from the base station to the user equipment. The present invention further discloses acquiring information about reachable cooperation areas, determining preference information with respect to the reachable cooperation areas, sending a connection request message including preference information to a reachable cooperation area, and selecting the cooperation area to which the connection request message was sent if a connection acknowledgement message is received.