Patent ID: 8902741

Claim:
User Equipment (UE) comprising processing circuitry to: determine a delay value indicating a time for an enhanced Node B (eNB) to delay scheduling an uplink grant; and generate a delayed buffer status report (D-BSR) medium-access control (MAC) control element for transmission to the eNB with a last-scheduled uplink grant, the D-BSR MAC control element to include at least an indicator of the delay value and an indicator of a predicted buffer size, wherein the D-BSR MAC control element is a request for a delayed grant of uplink bandwidth, wherein the processing circuitry further configures the D-BSR MAC control element to further include a logical channel identifier (LCID) index to indicate a control element for the delayed buffer status report, and wherein the UE is configured to receive a delayed grant for uplink bandwidth in response to transmission of the D-BSR MAC control element, the grant being received from the eNB no sooner than the delay value and including a bandwidth allocation sufficient to handle the predicted buffer size.