Patent ID: 8412209

Claim:
A 3 rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, communication system comprising: a scheduler for allocating communication resource to a User Equipment, UE, the communication resource being a communication resource of at least one of a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel, PUSCH, and a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel, PDSCH, and for determining whether to perform one of dynamic scheduling and persistent scheduling of at least one of the PUSCH and the PDSCH for the UE, the scheduler being operable to perform dynamic scheduling, wherein a resource allocation for a single frame is provided to the UE, and persistent scheduling, wherein a resource allocation for a plurality of frames is provided to the UE; a resource allocator for selecting an assignment of a resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel, PUCCH, for a conveyance of uplink control data by the UE, wherein the selection of the assignment of the PUCCH resource for the UE is based on the determination of which of dynamic scheduling and persistent scheduling to perform by the scheduler for the UE.