TREATMENT OF SECONDARY MANAGEMENT DATA AS USER DATA IN AN IEEE 802.16 SYSTEM SCHEDULER

• US 20080112343A1
• Filed: 05/21/2007
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: OLESZCZUK, Antoni
• Application Number:
  US11/751,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20080112343A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling

Abstract

A method of processing secondary management data packets, and a scheduler to perform the method, including processing each of the secondary management data packets through one or more queues in the scheduler used to process a user service flow in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.16 system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

placing a secondary management data packet in a best effort queue of a scheduler in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 system; and

processing the secondary management data packet accordingly with other data packets in the best effort queue.

2. A method, comprising:

placing a secondary management data packet in a corresponding queue of a scheduler in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 system in response to the secondary management data packet having a defined quality of service (QoS) parameter; and

processing the secondary management data packet according to the corresponding queue of the scheduler.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the defined QoS parameter is a minimum reserved traffic rate parameter, and the corresponding queue is a minimum reserved traffic rate queue of the scheduler.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the defined QoS parameter is a latency parameter, and the corresponding queue is a latency queue of the scheduler.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the secondary management data packet is placed in a best effort queue of the scheduler in response to the secondary management data packet not having a defined QoS parameter.

6. A method of processing secondary management data packets comprising:

processing each of the secondary management data packets through one or more queues in a scheduler used to process a user service flow in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 system.

7. A scheduler, comprising:

a best effort queue in which service flow data packets having no defined quality of service (QoS) parameters are placed in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 system;

wherein a secondary management data packet is placed in the best effort queue and processed accordingly with the service flow data packets in the best effort queue.

8. A scheduler, comprising

a plurality of quality of service (QoS) specific queues to process data packets having defined QoS parameters in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 system;

wherein a secondary management data packet is placed in a corresponding queue of the scheduler in response to the secondary management data packet having a defined QoS parameter.

9. The scheduler of claim 8, wherein the plurality of QoS specific queues includes a minimum reserved traffic rate queue, and the secondary management data packet is placed in the minimum reserved traffic rate queue in response to having a defined minimum reserved traffic rate parameter.

10. The scheduler of claim 8, wherein the plurality of QoS specific queues includes a latency queue, and the secondary management data packet is placed in the latency queue in response to having a defined latency parameter.

11. The scheduler of claim 8, further comprising a best effort queue to process data packets having no defined QoS parameters, wherein the secondary management data packet is placed in the best effort queue in response to not having a defined QoS parameter.

12. A scheduler, comprising:

a plurality of queues to process a user service flow in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 system;

wherein one or more secondary management data packets are each processed through one or more of the queues which process the user service flow.