Patent ID: 9681430
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a User Equipment, UE, associated with transmission resources, allocated by Semi-Persistent Scheduling, SPS, the method comprising: receiving information from a Base Station, BS, about a set of Modulation and Coding Schemes, MCSs, associated with resources allocated by SPS; determining an MCS from the set, for communication on at least one resource allocated by SPS, thus identifying a currently preferred MCS, said determining the MCS from the set performed autonomously by the UE, based on at least one of: the amount of data in queue for uplink transmission by the UE, and knowledge of the quality of a channel between the UE and the BS; and transmitting and/or receiving data on the at least one resource allocated by SPS, using the currently preferred MCS; wherein the determining of the MCS from the set is further based on at least one of: