Patent ID: 8811299

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: generating, by a mobile station without prompting by a base station to make an uplink delayed bandwidth request, a request for uplink delayed bandwidth to be allocated by the base station at a specified later time for transmission of packets received in an uplink queue, the request including an indication of an amount of delayed bandwidth being requested; providing an offset delay associated with the requested uplink delayed bandwidth, wherein the offset delay is determined by the mobile station based on a predicted time until a next packet is expected to be received at the uplink queue and an identification of a current frame; and transmitting the request for the uplink delayed bandwidth, and the determined offset delay in a subheader of a packet; wherein the offset delay is represented by k and is determined based in part on following relationship: k =ceiling(( p+T−t )/ Tf )+ c, where: p represents a last packet arrival time from the application to the mobile station's uplink queue, T represents a maximum inter-packet arrival time to the uplink queue, t represents a current time, Tf represents a frame duration of a frame, and c represents a frame sequence number of a current frame at a time when the offset delay, k, is determined.