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The method proposed in this paper aims to discuss how a straightforward schedule can be provided within the transmission time interval (TTI) sub-frame using a mixture of dispatching disciplines per TTI instead of a single rule adopted across the whole transmission. This is to maximize the system throughput while assuring the best user fairness. This requires adopting a policy of how to mix the rules and a refinement procedure to call the best rule each time. Two scheduling policies are proposed for how to mix the rules including use of Q learning algorithm for refining the policies. 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