Patent ID: 8767568
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for scheduling traffic in a communication channel of a mobile communications network, the communication channel being shared by a plurality of user equipments, the method comprising: detecting each intermittent transmission of data that exceeds regular rate of data transfer as a data burst; determining whether an amount of data from each detected data burst added to a transmission queue in a given instant is lower than a first threshold; determining whether an amount of data from each detected data burst added to the transmission queue over a duration of a time window is lower than a second threshold; for each detected data burst, determining that the data burst is sensitive-to-latency traffic in response to determining that the amount of data from the data burst added to the transmission queue in a given instant is lower than the first threshold and determining that the amount of data from the data burst added to the transmission queue over the duration of the time window is lower than the second threshold; tagging each data burst determined to be sensitive-to-latency traffic as a sensitive-to-latency traffic data burst; and prioritizing transmission of data bursts tagged as sensitive-to-latency traffic data bursts.