Differentiating wireless uplink bandwidth request by connection priority

A base station comprising:

• a scheduler;
• a controller;
• and
• a radio interface,
• wherein said base station is configured to define connection priority parameters to be used by mobile stations to make bandwidth requests,
• wherein said connection priority parameters depend on Quality of Service (QoS) class assigned to said mobile stations,
• wherein said connection priority parameters comprises an initial back off interval, a minimum time delay interval, a maximum time delay interval, a minimum scaling factor, a maximum scaling factor, and a back-off interval scaling factor, and
• wherein said base station is configured to send said parameters to said mobile stations.

A mobile station comprising:

• a bandwidth request module, a controller, a radio interface, and a memory, wherein said mobile station is configured to:
• receive connection priority parameters sent by a base station, wherein said connection priority parameters depend on Quality of Service (QoS) class assigned to said mobile station, wherein said mobile station comprises an initial back off interval, a maximum back off interval, a back off interval scaling factor, a minimum time delay interval, a maximum time delay interval, a minimum scaling factor, and a maximum scaling factor;
• store said parameters in said memory;
• send a request for bandwidth to said base station;
• fetch stored parameters from said memory;
• and
• calculate a time delay as a random number based on said connection priority parameters on not receiving a response from said base station within a predefined interval for a bandwidth request sent to said base station.