Patent ID: 8873474

Claim:
A method in a mobile terminal for providing uplink scheduling information to a scheduler in a wireless telecommunication system, said method comprising the steps of: receiving information regarding a logical channel group having a logical channel that has triggered a buffer status report, the logical channel having a priority level associated therewith and having data available for transmission; determining whether the priority level associated with the logical channel exceeds a predefined threshold; upon determining that the priority level exceeds the predefined threshold, performing a scheduling request procedure with the scheduler; and upon determining that the priority level does not exceed the predefined threshold, delaying the scheduling request procedure until a predefined timing event has occurred; wherein the scheduling request procedure includes transmitting the buffer status report; wherein the scheduling request procedure is being performed using a contention-based random access, and the step of delaying the scheduling request procedure until a predefined timing event has occurred includes delaying the transmission of the buffer status report until contention resolution has succeeded for the mobile terminal.