Method and apparatus for scheduling an acknowledgement in a wireless communication system

摘要

A communication system (100) is provided that facilitates an expedited exchange of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acknowledgment by scheduling (338, 340) the TCP acknowledgment at a higher priority than Best Effort and/or by arranging (364, 366, 368) for a scheduling of the TCP acknowledgment based on a predicted transmission of a request to schedule the TCP acknowledgment.