Patent ID: 8194699
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving two or more bandwidth requests in a first radio frame from one or more mobile stations for uplink transmissions from the one or more mobile stations; providing once per radio frame a first aggregated message from a data plane to a radio scheduler in a control plane, the first aggregated message comprising the two or more bandwidth requests for uplink transmissions received in the first radio frame from the one or more mobile stations; receiving two or more messages for downlink transmission of packets from a core network to be transmitted to the one or more of the mobile stations; providing once per radio frame a second aggregated message from the data plane to the radio scheduler in the control plane, the second aggregated message comprising the two or more messages received from the core network for downlink transmission; and scheduling at least one or more uplink transmissions or one or more downlink transmissions, or combinations thereof, by the radio scheduler.