Physical resource block allocation for TTI bundling

摘要

A wireless network receives one or more data segments transmitted by a wireless communication device (WCD) in or more transmission time intervals (TTIs), estimates a size of a next data segment to be transmitted by the WCD based at least in part on sizes of the one or more data segments transmitted by the WCD, and allocates a quantity of uplink resources (e.g., a number of physical resource blocks) to the WCD for use in one or more subsequent TTIs (e.g., TTIs used for TTI bundling) based at least in part on the estimated size of the next data segment. The network may refer to an algorithm, such as a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control algorithm, that specifies how sizes of successive data segments increase over time to predict the size of the next data segment based on the sizes of the one or more data segments.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a base station in a wireless network, one or more data segments transmitted by a wireless communication device (WCD) in one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs); estimating, by the wireless network, a size of a next data segment to be transmitted by the WCD based at least in part on sizes of the one or more data segments transmitted by the WCD; allocating, by the wireless network, a quantity of uplink resources to the WCD for use by the WCD in one or more subsequent TTIs, based at least in part on the estimated size of the next data segment; and transmitting, by the base station, an indication to the WCD of the quantity of uplink resources allocated to the WCD.