Patent ID: 8929354
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of scheduling of an electronic communication base station, the method comprising: obtaining information about a service currently used by a communication terminal associated with the base station; performing predictive scheduling of transmissions from the communication terminal to the base station based on the obtained information, the predictive scheduling including determining an interval I which is a predicted maximal time period between consecutive transmission grants sent by the base station to the communication terminal; sending a first transmission grant to the communication terminal at a first time t=0 in accordance with the predictive scheduling; sending a first Scheduling Request (SR) inhibiting indicator to the communication terminal, preventing the communication terminal from sending a Scheduling Request, SR, to the base station unless a specified criterion is fulfilled; and sending a second transmission grant to the communication terminal at the latest at a second time t=I; wherein the first transmission grant and the first SR inhibiting indicator are sent to the communication terminal together as parts of a first grant message.