Patent ID: 9374807
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for uplink scheduling over a communication channel in a communication network including at least one User Equipment (UE) and a base station, the method comprising: determining whether the UE is associated with at least one of Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) bearers and non-Guaranteed Bit Rate (non-GBR) bearers; for each of the GBR-bearers and the non-GBR-bearers, computing a demand for resources for establishing an uplink communication, wherein the demand is computed based on physical layer characteristics and transport layer characteristics associated with the communication channel based on the relation: where T f is a frame length of duration in seconds, β is a fraction of uplink sub-frames in a frame and R i is a maximum reported rate in bps; communicating the demand as a request message to the base station; and in response to the request message, receiving an allocation of resources for uplink scheduling from the base station.