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US 9,357,527 · App. 13/919,469 · Granted May 31, 2016

Carrier aggregation scheduling apparatus, carrier aggregation scheduling method, and base station

Inventor: Xinyan Lv (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
H04W72/04H04L5/001H04L5/0091H04L5/0094H04W72/1278
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Patent No.
US 9,357,527
App. No.
13/919,469
Granted
May 31, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A carrier aggregation apparatus includes a first carrier aggregation scheduler, which is configured to receive user information of a first user equipment UE, carrier information for carrier aggregation, and information about a first baseband board and to schedule carriers according to the user information of the first UE, the carrier information for carrier aggregation, and the information about the first baseband board. The scheduling result indicates carriers used for the first UE.

Claims (13)

1. A carrier aggregation scheduling apparatus, comprising:

a first carrier aggregation scheduler configured to receive user information of a first user equipment (UE), carrier information for carrier aggregation, and information about a first baseband board, schedule carriers according to the user information of the first UE, the carrier information for carrier aggregation, and the information about the first baseband board, and output scheduling results for the carriers, wherein the scheduling results respectively comprise an amount of data to be transceived of the first UE that is separately allocated to the carriers;

a first carrier sub-scheduler connected to the first carrier aggregation scheduler and configured to schedule a carrier resource of a first carrier according to a received scheduling result-comprising an amount of data to be transceived of the first UE being separately allocated to the first carrier, wherein the scheduling results comprise the received scheduling result;

the first baseband board, comprising a first UE processor, the first UE processor configured to acquire the user information of the first UE, the first carrier aggregation scheduler being connected to the first UE processor and located in the first baseband board; and

a second baseband board, comprising a second UE processor connected to the first carrier aggregation scheduler, the second UE processor being configured to acquire user information of a second UE associated with the second UE processor, wherein the first carrier aggregation scheduler determines carriers used for the second UE according to the user information of the second UE, the carrier information for carrier aggregation, and information about the second baseband board.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first baseband board further comprises an n th UE processor, configured to acquire user information of an n th UE, wherein n comprises a positive integer; and

wherein the first carrier aggregation scheduler is connected to the n th UE processor and is further configured to receive the user information of the n th UE, to determine carriers used for the n th UE according to the user information of the n th UE, the carrier information for carrier aggregation, and the information about the first baseband board.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second baseband board further comprises a second carrier sub-scheduler connected to the first carrier aggregation scheduler, wherein the second carrier sub-scheduler is configured to schedule a resource of a second carrier according to a determination of the first carrier aggregation scheduler, and the carriers used for the first UE or the second UE comprise the second carrier.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the user information of the first UE comprises an amount of data to be tranceived of the UE or air interface channel quality of the UE.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the carrier information for carrier aggregation comprises bandwidth of a carrier.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information about the first baseband board comprises load of the first baseband board or a resource constraint of the first baseband board.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the carriers determined by the first carrier aggregation scheduler are respectively allocated to proceed different portion of the amount of data to be transceived of the first UE.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first carrier sub-scheduler is not located in the first baseband board.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 17, 2013
From: LV, XINYAN
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.
Reel/Frame 030625/0575 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2011082353 · Nov 17, 2011
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