Patent ID: 6914890

Claim:
In a radio communication system having a network infrastructure with which a first mobile station and at least a second mobile station communicates data frames during a non-random access period, data frames to be communicated between the network infrastructure and the first mobile station selected to be communicated at a first data rate and data frames to be communicated between the network infrastructure and the second mobile station selected to be communicated at least at a second data rate, an improvement of a system for controlling a communication sequence of communication of the data with the first mobile station and the at least the second mobile station, respectively, said system comprising: a selector coupled to receive indications of the first data rate and of the at least the second data rate at which the data is selected to be communicated between the network infrastructure and the first mobile terminal and between the network infrastructure and the at least the second mobile terminal, respectively, said selector for selecting the communication sequence of the communication of the data frames according to a sequencing scheme, the sequencing scheme ordering the sequence of the communication of the data frames into an ordered sequence of dataframe transmissions in which transmission of the data frames are sequenced according to which of the first and at least second data rates, respectively, are higher, such that data frames of the ordered sequence of higher data rates are selected to be transmitted during the non-random access period prior to data frames of lower data rates.