Patent ID: 9560660
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: a base station making a decision, based at least in part on an indication of radio frequency (RF) conditions being perceived by a given user equipment device (UE), of whether to use a bit-rate limitation or rather a resource-block limitation for data transmissions with the given UE; and the base station thereafter allocating resources for a given data transmission with the given UE in accordance with the decision, wherein the bit-rate limitation comprises a maximum allowable bit-rate for the given UE and the second resource limitation comprises a maximum extent of resource-blocks that can be allocated to the given UE, and wherein making the decision comprises (i) if the indication of RF conditions exceeds a threshold level of RF conditions, deciding to use the bit-rate limitation, but (ii) if the indication of RF conditions does not exceed the threshold level of RF conditions, deciding to use the resource-block limitation, wherein the resource-block limitation allows a lesser extent of resources to be allocated than the bit-rate limitation when the indication of RF conditions does not exceed the threshold level of RF conditions.