Apparatus and method for scheduling transmission resources to users served by a base station using a prediction of rate regions

摘要

An apparatus for scheduling transmission resources to users served by a base station equipped with a plurality of antennas, comprises a predictor (10) for predicting rate regions for one or more future time slots (12) based on rate regions for one or more past time slots (14) to obtain one or more predicted rate regions, and a processor (18) for calculating the transmission resources for the users for a current time slot (20) using scheduled transmission resources for the one or more past time slots, a rate region for the current time slot and the one or more predicted rate regions.