METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DE-CENTRALIZED COORDINATED MULTI-POINT SCHEDULING WITH STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

摘要

The method provides a new approach of de-centralized coordinated scheduling in a wireless network, such as, for example, a LTE-Anetwork, by considering all likelihoods of resource allocation in neighbor cells and deriving decisions based on these statistics. Such a method thus relies on a novel de-centralized CS scheme with: new inter-node signaling to convey resource allocation statistics of cells in the cooperating set of cells, also called cluster, new algorithms to compute statistical performance metrics based on signaling in (i), and coordinated scheduling operated in individual nodes to allocate resource based on the statistical performance metrics.