SIGNALLING SCHEDULING ASSITANCE DATA IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A User Equipment, UE, (101) of a cellular communication system (100) transmits scheduling assistance data to a base station (105) comprising a base station scheduler (209) which schedules packet data. The scheduling assistance data relates to packet data communication of the UE (101). The scheduling assistance data is generated by a scheduling assistance data generator (223) coupled to a packet data transmit buffer (221) associated with the packet data transmission. A first transport channel controller (217) allocates other data to a first transport channel and a retransmission controller (219) operates a retransmission scheme for this transport channel. A second transport channel controller (225) allocates the scheduling assistance data to a signalling transport channel and a transport channel multiplexer (227) combines the two transport channels as multiplexed channels on a single physical resource. The transmission reliabilities for the retransmission and non-retransmission transport channels may be individually optimised.