Patent ID: 8412182

Claim:
A method for scheduling link quality measurement reports associated with one or more cells of a wireless network wherein the method is implemented in a base station, the method comprising: estimating at the base station a first time at which a first link quality measurement report will be available at a user equipment; scheduling transmission of the first link quality measurement report from the user equipment to the base station based on the first estimated time, wherein scheduling the transmission of the first link quality measurement report comprises, transmitting, just prior to the first estimated time, a grant of uplink resources from the base station to the user equipment to enable the user equipment to transmit the link quality measurement report to the base station on an uplink channel; estimating at the base station a second time at which a second link quality measurement report will be available at the user equipment, where the second estimated time at which the second link quality measurement report will be available is based on a time interval between the first link quality measurement report and the second link quality measurement report; and scheduling at the base station transmission of the second link quality measurement report from the user equipment to the base station based on the second estimated time.