Apparatus, systems and methods for improved link quality evaluation of mobile cellular systems

摘要

Apparatus, system and methods for evaluating link quality within a cellular system. A user equipment (“UE”) is connected to a network, wherein the UE communicates data to the network on an uplink (“UL”) link. The UE determines a requested buffer size for a UL communication, determines a transport block size for the UL communication based on a primary set of allocation parameters, and compares the requested buffer size to the transport block size to determine if a data rate for the UL communication satisfies a threshold. When the data rate satisfies the threshold, the UE identifies the UL link as a good quality link and sends acceptable link quality feedback to the network. When the data rate does not satisfy the threshold, the UE performs a further action to test a quality of the UL link.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
at a user equipment (“UE”) connected to a network, wherein the UE communicates data to the network on an uplink (“UL”) link:
determining a requested buffer size for a UL communication;determining a transport block size for the UL communication based on a primary set of allocation parameters;comparing the requested buffer size to the transport block size to determine a data rate for the UL communication that is being supported by the network;determining when the data rate for the UL communication satisfies a threshold;when the data rate satisfies the threshold, identifying the UL link as a good quality link and sending acceptable link quality feedback to the network; andwhen the data rate does not satisfy the threshold, performing a further action to test a quality of the UL link.