Patent ID: 8571071

Claim:
A method for scheduling traffic in wide area cellular telephone networks, wherein traffic containing packets related to users is buffered in priority queues according to a value (i) which indicates a priority for transmission assigned to an incoming packet, the method comprising: a) determining a delay t d of the incoming packet, wherein the delay t d of the incoming packet is calculated using an arrival time of the incoming packet at a base station and a current scheduling time t, the arrival time being associated with an ID for the incoming packet and being used to dynamically create a table of arrival times; b) calculating at a current scheduling time t at least one value of a scheduling priority SchedP(i,t), the scheduling priority SchedP(i,t) being a function of the value (i) indicating the priority of the incoming packet and the delay t d of the incoming packet; c) scheduling the packets buffered in priority queues according to the values of the scheduling priority SchedP(i,t), and wherein the steps a), b) and c) are performed every transmission time interval.