Systems and Methods for Traffic-Aware Medium Access Selection

摘要

Diverse traffic types can be efficiently communicated in a simultaneous manner by dynamically selecting between contention-based and scheduling-based media access control (MAC) communication schemes. Such a mechanism may be particularly beneficial in networks having a contention-based access resources and scheduling based access resources. Contention-based resources and scheduling based resources may occur over a common period, and may be orthogonal in the frequency domain and/or in the code domain. The dynamic selection may be based on a traffic characteristic or a network characteristic, and may be performed on a packet-by-packet basis. The selection criteria may be updated dynamically to adapt to changing network conditions, and may be communicated to the various transmitters via control channels or higher layer signaling.

主权项

1. A method for communicating data using multiple media access control (MAC) access techniques, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a transmitter, a first traffic flow and a second traffic flow; and simultaneously communicating the first traffic flow and the second traffic flow over a network, wherein the first traffic flow is communicated in accordance with a scheduling-based access MAC communication scheme, and wherein the second traffic flow is communicating in accordance with a contention-based access MAC communication scheme.