Patent ID: 9173203
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a base station for assisting transmission of scheduling requests to the base station, the base station being adapted to serve a user equipment that is configured to transmit scheduling requests to the base station only at certain predetermined scheduling request opportunities, the method comprising: determining a factor k to be transmitted to the user equipment enabling the user equipment to calculate a scheduling request prohibiting timer length; transmitting the determined factor k to the user equipment; scheduling the user equipment when a scheduling request is received, on a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) resource, from the user equipment; and receiving no further scheduling requests from the user equipment until a period of time equal to the scheduling request prohibiting timer length expires; wherein: the scheduling request comprises a first scheduling request; and scheduling the user equipment comprises receiving the first scheduling request from the user equipment and scheduling the user equipment in response to the first scheduling request, and wherein receiving no further scheduling requests from the user equipment until a period of time equal to the scheduling request prohibiting timer length expires comprises receiving no further scheduling requests from the user equipment until a period of time equal to a time between two scheduling request opportunities multiplied by the determined factor k expires.