Patent ID: 9603161
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for transmitting data, the method comprising: receiving an uplink grant; determining that one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) control elements (CEs) that are not associated with padding are to be transmitted; allocating resources for transmission to the one or more MAC CEs that are not associated with padding, wherein the one or more MAC CEs that are not associated with padding are prioritized over a plurality of logical channels that have data currently available for transmission; determining that a first logical channel of the plurality of logical channels has first data currently available for transmission, wherein the first logical channel corresponds to a signaling radio bearer (SRB); determining that a first logical channel of the plurality of logical channels have data currently available for transmission, are associated with data radio bearers, and are each configured with a respective prioritized bit rate (PBR) credit; allocating resources for transmission to the first logical channel, wherein the first logical channel is allocated sufficient resources to transmit the first data currently available for transmission; allocating resources for transmission to the one or more other logical channels that have data currently available for transmission, wherein each of the one or more other logical channels are first allocated resources for transmission in a decreasing priority order up to the respective PBR credit configured for each of the one or more logical channels that correspond to data radio bearers; decrementing each respective PBR credit of the one or more other logical channels that correspond to data radio bearers by an amount of resources allocated to a corresponding logical channel; determining that the PBR credits of each of the one or more other logical channels that correspond to data radio bearers are each zero or less than zero; allocating remaining resources available for transmission to the one or more other the other logical channels in decreasing priority order; and transmitting the allocated resources in accordance with the uplink grant.