Opportunistic Uplink scheduling

摘要

A system and a method that facilitates scheduling uplink transmissions in a communication network utilizing a dynamic loading offset level pattern, comprising:
broadcasting a first loading factor based on a first loading offset level determined from a first time varying loading offset level pattern corresponding to a first time slot (1702);
broadcasting a second loading factor based on a first loading offset level determined from the first time varying loading offset level pattern corresponding to a second time slot (1704);
receiving channel quality reports from one or more mobile devices pertaining to evaluated path loss ratios during the first time slot and the second time slot (1706);
scheduling a first mobile device for uplink transmission during the first time slot on a first channel based on the channel quality reports and the first loading factor (1708);
scheduling a second mobile device for uplink transmission during the second time slot on the first channel based on the channel quality reports and the second loading factor (1710).