Scheduled and autonomous transmission and acknowledgement

摘要

Techniques for efficient signaling to and from a plurality of mobile stations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a subset of mobile stations may be allocated a portion of the shared resource with one or more individual access grants, another subset may be allocated a portion of the shared resource with a single common grant, and yet another subset may be allowed to use a portion of the shared resource without any grant. In another embodiment, an acknowledge and continue command is used to extend all or a subset of the previous grants without the need for additional requests and grants, and their associated overhead. In one embodiment, a traffic to pilot ratio (T/P) is used to allocate a portion of the shared resource, allowing a mobile station flexibility in selecting its transmission format based on T/P.

主权项

1. A method of transmission, comprising:
storing data in a data buffer at a mobile station; transmitting an access request message; monitoring a plurality of grant channels, the plurality of grant channels including one or more individual grant channels and one or more common grant channels; receiving an access grant on one of the plurality of grant channels, the access grant being one of an individual grant directed to the mobile station and received on an individual grant channel or a common grant received on a common grant channel; and transmitting at least a portion of the data from the data buffer in response to the received access grant.