US8774114B2

5G,4G

Title

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIORITIZING LOGICAL CHANNELS

Application Number:

US201213401998

Publication Date:

08-07-2014

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Application Date:

22-02-2012

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

01-02-2008

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Abstract  Abstract

A method and apparatus are disclosed for prioritizing logical channels when a new transmission is performed. Logical channel resources are allocated for available data to a plurality of logical channels. A maximum bit rate (MBR) credit (i.e. token) is decremented in a buffer (i.e. bucket) associated with a particular one of the logical channels by the size of a medium access control (MAC) service data unit (SDU). The MBR credit may have a negative value. If any of the allocated channel resources remain the logical channels are served n a decreasing priority order until the data is exhausted. A radio link control (RLC) SDU is not segmented if the whole RLC SDU fits into the remaining resources. The MAC SDU excludes a MAC PDU header and MAC padding.

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