Patent ID: 8767636

Claim:
A method of scheduling user terminals for communication in at least two wireless sub-networks of an overall communication network, the method comprising: determining scheduling priorities of a number of user terminals based on information representative of experienced end-to-end quality of delivery of user traffic between two of the user terminals which belong to different ones of the wireless sub-networks; wherein said information representative of the experienced end-to-end quality of delivery of the user traffic between the two of the user terminals, is based on quality of service (QoS) feedback information extracted from Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), allocating communication resources in said at least two wireless sub-networks of said overall communication network to said user terminals based on the scheduling priorities, and determining a RTCP factor based on the QoS feedback information extracted from the RTCP during each Transmission Time Interval (TTI), wherein the scheduling priorities of the number of user terminals are further determined based on the RTCP factor.