Patent ID: 6928268

Claim:
A method for allocating a transmission capacity to connections in a radio communication system, the method which comprises: allocating a transmission rate to a connection established via a radio communication interface between a base transceiver station and a subscriber station in dependence on a connection-specific path loss of the radio communication interface; allocating the transmission rate in dependence on an interference situation at a location of the subscriber station in a radio cell of the base transceiver station; carrying out, with a Radio Resource Control layer in the radio communication system, a long-term transmission rate allocation in dependence on at least one of the connection-specific path loss and a transmitter power; defining a set of different transport formats when the connection is set up; varying the transmission rate by using a Transport Format Set configuration/reconfiguration procedure of the Radio Resource Control layer; and selecting, with a Media Access Control layer, a suitable transport format from either the defined set of different transport formats or another set of different transport formats.