Network node, a base station for uplink grant pre-allocation

A network node in communication with a base station and configured to assist the base station in activating an uplink grant pre-allocation for a user equipment served by the base station to download a requested web page to the user equipment, said network node, said base station, and said user equipment operate in a wireless communications network, the network node comprising:

• a processor and a memory comprising instructions that when executed by said processor cause the processor to operate to:
• obtain a first value of a set of features related to the requested web page, and which set of features represent any one out of:
• a content of the requested web page, the user equipment, and a web browser in the user equipment,
• predict whether or not it is beneficial to activate an uplink grant pre-allocation in the wireless communications network for the user equipment to download the requested web page based on:
• a comparison between the first value of said set of features and of a second value of said set of features, said second value is related to a previously downloaded web page, and
• an evaluation whether or not it is beneficial to activate the uplink grant pre-allocation based on a time to download the previously downloaded web page in the wireless communications network, and
• provide to the base station the result of said predicting whether or not it is beneficial to activate the uplink grant pre-allocation for the user equipment to download the requested web page.

A base station in communication with a network node configured to assist the base station in activating an uplink grant pre-allocation for a user equipment served by the base station to download a requested web page to the user equipment, said base station, said network node, and said user equipment operate in a wireless communications network, the base station comprising:

• a processor and a memory comprising instructions that when executed by said processor cause the processor to operate to:
• obtain from a network node a result of a prediction whether or not it is beneficial to activate an uplink grant pre-allocation in the wireless communications network for the user equipment to download the requested web page,
• determine whether or not to activate the uplink grant pre-allocation in the wireless communications network for the user equipment to download the requested web page, based at least in part on the obtained result of the prediction, and
• provide to the network node a decision whether or not the base station has activated the uplink grant pre-allocation for the user equipment to download the requested web page, a download time of the requested web page and an identity of the requested web page.