Patent ID: 11956771
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code;
the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
receiving data transmissions, at a centralized unit of the apparatus, indicative of data to be transmitted via the wireless communication network;
obtaining physical channel information indicative of one or more parameters representing channel information or quality information associated with at least one physical channel that can be used for transmitting the data transmissions to one or more mobile devices of the wireless communication network;
buffering the received data transmissions, wherein a size of a payload and a code rate are determined based at least partially on a filling state indicative of the amount of buffered data transmissions;
scheduling the data transmissions based at least partially on the physical channel information, wherein a tentative scheduling grant is determined for at least a part of the data transmissions to be encoded tentatively;
encoding at least a part of the data transmissions, wherein the encoding is performed or controlled in a tentative fashion upon reception of the data transmissions, wherein the data transmissions are encoded based on the tentative scheduling grant, wherein the tentative scheduling grant is determined further based on the size of the payload and the code rate, and wherein the data transmissions are encoded further based on the determined size of the payload and the code rate; and
outputting the encoded data transmissions upon completion of the encoding.