Patent ID: 8243663

Claim:
A base station for a broadband wireless communication system, comprising: a transmitter system for transmitting downlink (DL) traffic to remote units and a receiver for receiving uplink (UL) traffic from said remote units; a bandwidth request processing module for detecting a bandwidth (BW) request in the UL traffic received from a remote unit and identifying in said BW request a requested amount of UL bandwidth pertaining to a specified connection established at said remote unit; a polling policy module that establishes a polling rate for said remote unit; and a bandwidth allocation module comprising a media access arbiter for receiving said request, for determining if bandwidth is available for said remote unit, and then allocating to said remote unit granted amount of UL bandwidth, and a processor for maintaining an UL map with uplink bandwidth allocations, dynamically update said UL map to account for said granted amount of UL bandwidth, provide the updated UL map to said transmitter for transmitting to remote units and indicate to said remote unit that said request has been granted by providing said granted amount of bandwidth to said remote unit.