Target Transmission Time Based Transmit Scheduling

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor in communication with the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
• receive, at a first time and at a first layer of one or more layers of a network protocol stack of a wireless device, a data packet and an associated latency requirement of the data packet from an application layer of the one or more layers;
• determine, at the first layer and based at least in part on the associated latency requirement, a target transmission time;
• and
• queue, at a second layer of the one or more layers, the data packet based, at least in part, on the target transmission time and an access category assigned to the data packet, wherein the data packet is received from the first layer.

A non-transitory computer readable memory medium storing program instructions executable by processing circuitry of a wireless device to:

• receive, at a first time and at a first network layer of one or more network layers of a network protocol stack of the wireless device, a data packet and an associated latency requirement of the data packet from a higher layer of the one or more layers;
• determine, at the first layer and based at least in part on the associated latency requirement, a target transmission time;
• queue, at a second layer of the one or more layers, the data packet based, at least in part, on the target transmission time and an access category assigned to the data packet, wherein the data packet is received from the first layer;
• and
• transmit, from the queue, the data packet in accordance with the target transmission time.