Wireless communications system and related methods for allocating data transmission
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorStanley Vitebsky
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Abstract
A communications system includes a base station and a plurality of remote stations wirelessly communicating with the base station and transmitting a requested service rate to the base station. The base station allocates a next transmission of data to the remote stations based on a scheduling operation. The scheduling operation includes determining an average service rate for each remote station and determining a priority value for each remote station based on the requested service rate and average service rate. In allocating the next transmission of data, at least one of the average service rate and the priority value is modified to thereby control data throughput of the communications system.
Claims14
A base station for communicating with remote stations and comprising:
- a controller allocating a next transmission of data among the remote stations based on a scheduling operation by
- determining an average service rate for each remote station;
- determining a priority value for each remote station based upon a requested service rate and the average service rate, and
- modifying at least the priority value for at least one remote station by multiplying the determined priority value by a factor that comprises a function of the requested service rate for the one remote station to thereby control data throughput.
A method of allocating a next transmission of data associated with a communications system comprising a base station and a plurality of remote stations wirelessly communicating with the base station and transmitting thereto a requested service rate, the method comprising:
- determining an average service rate for each remote station;
- determining a priority value for each remote station based upon the requested service rate and the average service rate;
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- modifying at least the priority value for at least one of the remote stations by multiplying the determined priority value by a factor comprising a function of the requested service rate for the one remote station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.