US Patent 9877340 Unified scheduler for wireless communication

In systems and methods of communicating with a wireless device, base band unit data is received at a base band unit from a communication network for the wireless device, and a control signal associated with the data is also received, the control signal comprising a frequency band identifier. A scheduling module is selected from among a plurality of scheduling modules based on the frequency band identifier, and transmission of the data is scheduled to the wireless using the selected scheduling module.