| 摘要 |
This invention relates to an apparatus and method for allocating timeslots subscriber units in a time division duplex communication system (300). The communication system (300) has a number of frame synchronised base stations (301). The apparatus (301) comprises a switching point processor (323) which determines a switching point (223) between uplink and downlink timeslots in a time frame. It further comprises a power level processor 321 which determines power levels associated with communication from aplurality of subscriber units (307, 309, 311) to be allocated time slots. In addition the apparatus (301) comprises a time slots scheduler which allocates time slots in the time frame to the subscriber units (307, 309, 311) in response to the associated power levels. The invention is applicable to 3rd generation cellular communication systems such as the Time Division Duplex mode of UMTS.
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