Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Co-scheduling of terminal devices
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Application No.: US15560034Application Date: 2017-08-29
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Publication No.: US10440727B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Andreas Nilsson
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/071588 WO 20170829
- International Announcement: WO2019/042527 WO 20190307
- Main IPC: H04W72/12
- IPC: H04W72/12 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W16/28 ; H04L5/00 ; H04W88/06

Abstract:
There is provided mechanisms for evaluating co-scheduling of terminal devices. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining an indication that a terminal device served by the network node is involved in a data session being longer than a threshold time value. The method comprises initiating, as a result of the data session being longer than the threshold time value, a beam sweep procedure using analog beamforming with the terminal device. The beam sweep procedure results in identification of a set of candidate beams in which the network node is able to serve the terminal device during the data session. The method comprises evaluating whether to co-schedule the terminal device with another terminal device in any of the candidate beams or not. The so-called another terminal device is also served by the network node.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190069309A1 CO-SCHEDULING OF TERMINAL DEVICES Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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