CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT IN HYBRID TDMA/CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A physical channel (72) of a user service is provided for assignment to a set of time slots in a hybrid time division multiple access/code division multiple access wireless communication system. A measure of interference is determined for each of the set of time slots. A fragmentation parameter (74) is provided. The fragmentation parameter represents a preference for fragmenting user service physical channels over time slots. The user service physical channel is assigned (76) to one of the set of time slots using the measured interference associated with each of the set of time slots and the fragmentation parameter.