Abstract: To increase number of candidates, configuration information that at least indicates slots usable for carrying uplink grant information among slots allocatable at least for downlink information may be transmitted or received in a radio resource control information. Said configuration information may be applied to determine, per a slot in a downlink control channel, whether the slot is of a first type that is not for carrying any uplink grant information or of a second type that is for carrying at least uplink grant information. An apparatus may determine a search space for blind decoding for uplink grant information to be a space comprising slots of the second type and not slots of the first type. An apparatus may transmit at least uplink grant information in the slots of the second type and downlink information at least in the slots of the first type.

Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured for determining which one or more user equipment of a plurality of user equipment are to be scheduled in a scheduling round. This is based on an associated quality of service and on a time domain metric associated with a respective user equipment of the plurality of user equipment.

Abstract: An apparatus including: a MIMO antenna for transmitting beamformed signals on a plurality of beams using a common frequency- and time-limited physical channel resource; circuitry for computing a beamforming gain of each beam in each sub-sector in a coverage area of said plurality of beams; circuitry for determining a beam dominance region of each beam within the coverage area of said plurality of beams; circuitry for determining, within the dominance region of each beam, an average of the beamforming gain of each of the other beams at least partially co-locating within said beam dominance region; circuitry for determining inter-beam interference estimations as an average interference of each beam from each of said other beams; and circuitry for scheduling transmissions of the beams by said MIMO antenna on said common frequency- and time-limited physical channel resource based on said inter-beam interference estimations.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a MIMO antenna for transmitting beamformed signals on a plurality of beams using a common frequency- and time-limited physical channel resource; means for computing a beamforming gain of each beam in each sub-sector in a coverage area of said plurality of beams; means for determining a beam dominance region of each beam within the coverage area of said plurality of beams; means for determining, within the dominance region of each beam, an average of the beamforming gain of each of the other beams at least partially co-locating within said beam dominance region; means for determining inter-beam interference estimations as an average interference of each beam from each of said other beams; and means for scheduling transmissions of the beams by said MIMO antenna on said common frequency- and time-limited physical channel resource based on said inter-beam interference estimations.