Scheduling mechanism for MAC entity

• US 20040196799A1
• Filed: 04/27/2004
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Terry, Stephen E.
• Granted Patent: US 7,609,632 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/320
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/5602 Bandwidth control in ATM Networks, e.g. leaky bucket
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2458 Modification of priorities while in transit
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0263 involving mapping traffic to individual bearers or channels, e.g. traffic flow template [TFT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/10 Flow control between communication endpoints
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1263 Mapping of traffic onto schedule, e.g. scheduled allocation or multiplexing of flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria

Abstract

A code division multiple access (CDMA) radio network controller (RNC) comprises a medium access controller-controlling/shared (MAC-c/sh) entity. The MAC-c/sh entity has a scheduling mechanism managing a forward access channel (FACH) resources. The scheduling mechanism schedules data for transfer over the FACH according to priority of the data and the data having an indicator of a priority of the data.

Claims

1. A code division multiple access (CDMA) radio network controller (RNC) comprising:

a medium access controller—

controlling/shared (MAC-c/sh) entity having a scheduling mechanism, the scheduling mechanism manages a forward access common channel (FACH) resources, the scheduling mechanism schedules data for transfer over the FACH according to a priority of the data and the data having an indicator of a priority of the data.

2. The CDMA RNC of claim 1 wherein the MAC-c/sh entity limiting data transferred over the FACH.

3. The CDMA RNC of claim 2 wherein the limiting is associated with a source of the data.

4. The CDMA RNC of claim 3 wherein the limiting of a particular source is by controlling a size of a window associated with the source.