Patent ID: 8634397
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for use in a wireless telecommunications system having a number of users with mobile terminals (MSs), and in which wireless telecommunications system there is a base station (BS) through which traffic to and from the MSs in a specific area, a cell, is routed, there being downlink (DL) traffic from the BS of a cell to the MSs in that cell and uplink (UL) traffic from those MSs to the BS, the method comprising the steps of: detecting, by the BS, MSs in the cell whose DL traffic rate exceeds a certain limit; and allocating to said detected MSs an UL bandwidth which enables each of said detected MSs to acknowledge DL traffic within a certain time period from reception of said DL traffic by such MS; wherein at least part of the UL traffic is contention-based; and wherein DL data to an MS must be acknowledged by the MS.