Patent ID: 8467421

Claim:
A method performed at a Radio Network Controller (RNC) for transmitting data in a wireless communication network that includes at least one NodeB and one or more user equipments (UE), the method comprising: receiving data from two or more radio bearers on two or more respective logical channels at a dedicated Medium Access Controller (MAC-d); multiplexing the data from the two or more logical channels into a single MAC-d flow; encapsulating the multiplexed MAC-d flow into MAC-d Protocol Data Units (PDUs), such that MAC-d PDU headers do not include a C/T field identifying the two or more logical channels; mapping the two or more logical channels to a Priority Queue (PQ) in a high speed Medium Access Controller (MAC-hs) of a NodeB; and transmitting logical channel identifiers (LCH-ID) from the Radio Network Controller to a UE.