Patent ID: 8744471

Claim:
A method of allocating radio resources, the method comprising the acts of: receiving information from the plurality of mobile stations, wherein the received information comprises signal quality measurements, a mobile station speed and a mobile station location; assigning each of a plurality of mobile stations to one of a plurality of categories based on the signal quality measurements, wherein each of the plurality of categories is associated with a different resource allocation scheme; allocating a percentage of available radio resources to each of the plurality of categories based on an amount of traffic requested by each of the plurality of mobile stations within each category, wherein when an amount of traffic requested by the plurality of mobile stations cannot be satisfied by the amount of available resources, allocating available radio resources based on a percentage of requested traffic to the available radio resources and a quality of service requirement of each category; allocating an amount of radio resources assigned to each category to mobile stations assigned to the category based on the resource allocation scheme associated with the category; and selecting at least one of the plurality of mobile stations for reallocation of an amount of radio resources based on the received information, wherein when one of the mobile station speed meets a speed threshold and a change in the mobile station location meets a location change threshold the at least one of the plurality of mobile stations is selected for reallocation after a plurality of time periods comprising one uplink transmission period and one downlink transmission period.