Patent ID: 9560670
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing coexisting packet streams in a wireless communication system, wherein a first packet stream of the coexisting packet streams utilizes transmission resources of the wireless communication system at fixed time intervals and a second packet stream of the coexisting packet streams utilizes transmission resources of the wireless communication system at dynamically determined time intervals, the method comprising: setting up a schedule defining allocations of transmission resources for the first packet stream; receiving a request for an initial grant of transmission resources for a transmission of a data packet of the second packet stream from a sending unit of the second packet stream; in the process of allocating transmission resources of the wireless communication system to the second packet stream, analysing the schedule of transmission resources allocated to the first packet stream and thereby determining whether a retransmission of the data packet associated with the second packet stream is possible to collide with a transmission of a data packet associated with the first packet stream according to the schedule; and transmitting a parameter specifying a number N of retransmissions possible without such collision as part of the initial grant of transmission resources to the sending unit of the second packet stream.