Patent ID: 8340706

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a multi-radio controller configured to provide radio access scheduling services for a plurality of radio access units over a control interface with a set of radio independent scheduling parameters for the radio access units, the multi-radio controller further comprising, a receiver configured to receive a scheduling request comprising value information on at least some of the radio independent scheduling parameters in a given form in accordance with the control interface common to the radio access units, a scheduler configured to schedule radio access on the basis of the value information on at least some of the radio independent scheduling parameters, and a sender configured to send a response to the scheduling request in a given form in accordance with the control interface common to the radio access units, wherein two or more categories of scheduling requests are predefined by the control interface between the radio access units and the multi-radio controller, and the scheduling request indicates its category, wherein the multi-radio controller is configured to serve the scheduling request in accordance with its category, and wherein the set of radio independent scheduling parameters comprises a first sub-set of parameters to be used in each scheduling request and a second sub-set of scheduling parameters specific to a scheduling request category.