Dynamic allocation of a radio resource
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsPekka Marjelund, Matti Jokimies
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and network device for allocating a radio resource, e.g. a radio bearer, to a data connection. First, a radio resource is allocated-to the data connection and data transmitted via the data connection is compressed and transmitted using the allocated radio resource. During the transmission, a transmission parameter of the compressed data is monitored and the allocated radio resource is reconfigured based on the monitoring result. Thereby, the radio resource can be dynamically adapted to different data rates during the connection. Header compression benefits are available to all kinds of traffic without the disadvantage of having too low or too high data rates.
Claims17
A method, comprising:
- allocating for at least one of uplink and downlink directions a radio resource to a data connection, wherein said allocating is performed independently for uplink and downlink directions;
- monitoring a transmission parameter of compressed data, transmitted via the data connection using the radio resource, to detect a compressor state of a compressor of the compressed data;
- and
- reconfiguring said allocated radio resource after a predetermined compressor state has been reached, wherein the predetermined compressor state is a higher compression state than the compression state used in initialization of header compression.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program codes, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform the following functions:
- allocating for at least one of uplink and downlink directions a radio resource to a data connection, wherein said allocating is performed independently for uplink and downlink directions;
- monitoring a transmission parameter of compressed data, transmitted via the data connection using the radio resource, to detect a compressor state of a compressor of the compressed data;
- and
- reconfiguring said allocated radio resource after a predetermined compressor state has been reached, wherein the predetermined compressor state is a higher compression state than the compression state used in initialization of header compression.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program the computer program being configured to control a processor to perform:
- allocating for at least one of uplink and downlink directions a radio resource to a data connection, wherein said allocating is performed independently for uplink and downlink directions;
- monitoring a transmission parameter of compressed data, transmitted via the data connection using the radio resource, to detect a compressor state of a compressor of the compressed data;
- and
- reconfiguring said allocated radio resource after a predetermined compressor state has been reached, wherein the predetermined compressor state is a higher compression state than the compression state used in initialization of header compression.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.