Patent ID: 11864175
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. The communication system of claim 6, wherein
the transceiver comprised in the user equipment is capable of
receiving uplink scheduling information;
transmitting scheduling requests on the uplink control channel, and;
transmitting the random access transmissions on the random access channel;, the user equipment further comprising:
an uplink resources monitoring mechanism connected to the transceiver and being capable of determining whether any of the uplink resources are available for transmission of data and of generating an uplink resources monitoring output in dependency of the result of the determining;
a counter capable of counting the measure used for limiting the number of transmitted scheduling requests, the measure being time or the number of transmitted scheduling requests;
a memory for storing the threshold value representing the maximum limit;
a comparator arranged to receive the threshold value and an output of the counter, the comparator being adapted to compare the output of the counter with the threshold value and to generate a comparison output;
a scheduling request mechanism adapted to receive the comparison output and to determine, in dependency of the comparison output, whether a scheduling request should be transmitted on the uplink control channel whether the random access transmission should be made on the random access channel, and being further adapted to instruct the transceiver accordingly.