Patent ID: 9185597
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: initializing, by a device, a counter indicating a counter value; determining, by the device, a quantity of grants that are assigned to scheduling requests for voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) packets, determining, by the device, that there is network congestion in a network associated with the device; determining, by the device, that the counter value is less than the quantity of the grants assigned to the scheduling requests for the VoLTE packets; dropping, by the device, the VoLTE packet that corresponds to the counter value based on determining that there is network congestion and based on determining that the counter value is less than the quantity of the grants, dropping the VoLTE packet including: reassigning, by the device, the grant for the VoLTE packet that is dropped to a data packet based on dropping the VoLTE packet, assigning, by the device, physical resource blocks (PRBs) to one or more of the grants that are associated with one or more of the VoLTE packets that are not dropped and to the grant associated with the data packet.