Patent ID: 8374084
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of scheduling packets in a mobile communication system, comprising: assigning a positive credit to each bearer of a terminal in each time period for which resources are available; and accepting data packets from a bearer in accordance with predefined constraints of priority, buffer content and credit, where the data packets accepted include a data packet having a size that exceeds an available credit by an amount in a predefined range, and wherein, when accepting data from the bearer, the credit of the bearer is reduced by the size of the accepted data packet, and when the size of the accepted data packet exceeds the credit of the bearer, an amount by which the credit is exceeded is carried forward to a next time period as a negative credit, and a credit to be assigned to the bearer in the next time period is added to the negative credit carried forward.