Patent ID: 7701902

Claim:
A method for scheduling channel access, comprising: obtaining information associated with incoming traffic to a scheduler of a node associated with user equipment and outgoing traffic from the scheduler to the user equipment, the user equipment capable of establishing a communication link with the node; placing the information obtained in respective queues, the respective queues each associated with the user equipment; obtaining a count level of the queues; determining an interval rate for the incoming traffic; obtaining a receive rate for the user equipment; determining an incoming average rate for the incoming traffic; determining an outgoing average rate for the outgoing traffic; generating a proportion value responsive to the incoming average rate, the outgoing average rate, the receive rate, and the interval rate, wherein the generating includes: combining the incoming average rate and the outgoing average rate to provide a denominator value; combining the interval rate and the receive rate to provide a numerator value; dividing the numerator value by the denominator value to generate a proportion value; and allocating a bandwidth portion of a downlink side of the node to the user equipment responsive to the proportion value.