METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSMISSION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for scheduling asynchronous transmission for a plurality of subscriber units, which reduces an amount of overlap and/or gap of transmission segments between the subscriber units.SOLUTION: The method of scheduling asynchronous transmission includes a step (305) of receiving information associated with a plurality of subscriber units that have uplink data to transmit and the information includes uplink timing offset information associated with each of the subscriber units. Two or more subscriber units are selected from a plurality of subscriber units having a timing offset differential that is below a predetermined threshold value (310). The timing offset differential is a difference in timing offset between the subscriber units, and is minimized by being offset by a multiple of the transmission segment size. The transmission segments of data are allocated (315) to the selected two or more subscriber units.