IP Library Granted Patent US 11,146,921
Granted Patent B2
US 11,146,921 · App. 16/234,173 · Granted Oct 12, 2021

Method of grouping user devices

Inventors: You-En Lin (Taichung, TW); Jen-Feng Huang (Kaohsiung, TW)
Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
H04W4/08
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Patent No.
US 11,146,921
App. No.
16/234,173
Granted
Oct 12, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A grouping method of user devices comprises configuring one or more codes for each of the user devices by a base station wherein each of said one or more codes corresponds to a delay tolerance, performing a grouping task by the base station according to the delay tolerances and a determining result of channel-usage demand corresponding to each of the user devices so as to form one or more first-type groups and one or more second-type groups wherein each first-type group corresponds to a first-group delay tolerance and each second-type group corresponds to a second-group delay tolerance, and performing a selection from user devices in the first-type groups and the second-type groups to form one or more target groups by the base station according to the first-group delay tolerances and the second-group delay tolerances.

Claims (31)

1. A grouping method, applied to user devices connected to a base station, comprising:

by the base station, configuring one or more codes for each of the user devices, wherein each of said one or more codes corresponds to a delay tolerance;

by the base station, performing a grouping task according to the delay tolerances and a determining result of channel-usage demand corresponding to each of the user devices, so as to form one or more first-type groups and one or more second-type groups, wherein each of said one or more first-type groups corresponds to a first-group delay tolerance, and each of said one or more second-type groups corresponds to a second-group delay tolerance; and

by the base station, performing a selection from user devices in the one or more first-type groups and the one or more second-type groups to form one or more target groups according to the first-group delay tolerances and the second-group delay tolerances,

wherein the delay tolerances of the one or more first-type groups and the one or more second-type groups are different;

wherein by the base station, performing the grouping task according to the delay tolerances and the determining result of the channel-usage demand corresponding to each of the user devices, so as to form said one or more first-type groups and said one or more second-type groups comprising:

by the base station, dividing the user devices into one or more initial first-type group and one or more initial second-type group according to the delay tolerances;

by the base station, determining whether each of the user devices in each of the initial second-type groups has the channel-usage demand to selectively remove at least one of the user devices from the initial second-type group so as to form said one or more second-type groups; and

by the base station, determining whether each of the user devices in each of the initial first-type groups has the channel-usage demand to selectively remove at least one of the user devices from the initial first-type group so as to form said one or more first-type groups.

2. The grouping method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

by the base station, determining whether to split at least one of the target groups according to a sum of normalized channel-usage demand values of user devices in each of the target groups.

3. The grouping method according to claim 2 , wherein by the base station, determining whether to split said at least one of the target groups according to the sum of the normalized channel-usage demand values of the user devices in each of the target groups comprising:

by the base station, determining whether the sum of the normalized channel-usage demand values of the user devices in any one of the target groups is larger than 1; and

when the sum of the normalized channel-usage demand values of the user devices in any one of the target groups is larger than 1, splitting the target group by the base station.

4. The grouping method according to claim 3 , wherein splitting the target group by the station comprises:

by the base station, selecting a user device having a maximum normalized channel-usage demand value in the target group to form another target group other than the target groups.

5. The grouping method according to claim 1 , wherein the base station configures said one or more codes of each of the user devices according to service types of the user devices.

6. The grouping method according to claim 1 , wherein by the base station, dividing the user devices into said one or more initial first-type groups and said one or more initial second-type groups comprising:

by the base station, selecting user devices having identical minimum delay tolerance from the user devices to form said one or more initial first-type groups;

by the base station, selecting user devices having identical maximum delay tolerance from the user devices to form said one or more initial second-type groups.

7. The grouping method according to claim 1 , wherein by the base station, determining whether each of the user devices in each of the initial second-type groups has the channel-usage demand to selectively remove said at least one of the user devices from the initial second-type group so as to form said one or more second-type groups comprising:

when the base station determines that at least one of the user devices in one of the initial second-type groups has the channel-usage demand, the base station removes the user device from the initial second-type group.

8. The grouping method according to claim 1 , wherein by the base station, determining whether each of the user devices in each of the initial first-type groups has the channel-usage demand to selectively remove said at least one of the user devices from the initial first-type group so as to form said one or more first-type groups comprising:

when the base station determines that at least one of the user devices in one of the initial first-type groups does not have the channel-usage demand, the base station removes the user device from the initial first-type group.

9. The grouping method according to claim 1 , wherein by the base station, forming said one or more target groups according to the first-group delay tolerances and the second-group delay tolerances comprising:

when the base station determines that one of the first-group delay tolerances is identical to one of the second-group delay tolerances, selecting the user devices in the first-type group corresponding to the first-group delay tolerance and the user devices in the second-type group corresponding to the second-group delay tolerance to form the target group.

10. The grouping method according to claim 1 , wherein by the base station, performing the grouping task according to the delay tolerances and the determining result of the channel-usage demand corresponding to each of the user devices, so as to form said one or more first-type groups and said one or more second-type groups comprising:

by the base station, determining whether each of the user devices has the channel-usage demand;

by the base station, dividing the user devices into one or more initial first-type groups and one or more initial second-type groups according to the delay tolerances;

by the base station, removing a user device not having the channel-usage demand from the initial first-type group to from said one or more first-type groups; and

by the base station, removing a user device having the channel-usage demand from the initial second-type group to form said one or more second-type group.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 26, 2019
From: LIN, YOU-EN; HUANG, JEN-FENG
To: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 048706/0203 →
Continuity (1)
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