Patent ID: 8284703

Claim:
A method of a wireless subscriber scheduling and transmitting of uplink packets within uplink sub-frames of a wireless system, comprising: determining a size of a standard data unit; determining if the standard data unit can be transmitted within a single sub-channel of an uplink sub-frame by comparing the size of the standard data unit with a number of bits that can be transmitted within the single sub-channel of the uplink sub-frame; and if the size of the standard data unit exceeds the number of bits that can be transmitted within the single sub-channel of the uplink sub-frame, then: dividing the sub-channel into mini-sub-channels; determining how many bytes can be transmitted within each mini-sub-channel within the uplink sub-frame; dividing the standard data unit into sub-data units, where a size of the sub-data units is dependent on how many bytes can be transmitted within each mini-sub-channel of the uplink sub-frame; transmitting the sub-data units over multiple uplink sub-frames; and reducing power back-off of a power amplifier used for transmission of the sub-data units transmitted over the mini-sub-channels.