Patent ID: 9226307
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a radio access network (RAN), a first representation of a channel from a first wireless communication device (WCD) and a second representation of the channel from a second WCD, wherein the first WCD receives the channel with greater aggregate signal strength than the second WCD; determining that the first WCD and the second WCD are contending with one another for a first time-division multiplexed (TDM) slot on the channel, wherein the RAN contains a first data to transmit to the first WCD and a second data to transmit to the second WCD; transmitting the first data to the first WCD in the first TDM slot; and in response to the first WCD receiving the channel with greater aggregate signal strength than the second WCD and after the first data is transmitted to the first WCD, transmitting the second data to the second WCD in a second TDM slot, wherein more bits per symbol are used to transmit in the first TDM slot than used to transmit in the second TDM slot.