FLOW CONTROL IN UMTS USING INFORMATION IN UBS FIELD

摘要

Each of a plurality of data frames transmitted from a first node to a second node carry information belonging to one of a plurality of data flows. A determining unit determines at periodically repeated times, for each of the data flows, whether there are more data frames in the first node waiting to be transmitted. A capacity allocating unit allocates for each of those data flows for which no data frames have been waiting to be transmitted for a predetermined time period only a small amount of the totally available bandwidth for transmission from the first node to the second node. It also allocates for each of the remaining data flows a share of the rest of the totally available bandwidth such that the sum of the shares for all said remaining data flows is equal to the rest.