| 摘要 |
Various embodiments are described to address the need for an apparatus and method for communication resource acquisition that reduces the delay in acquiring resources without unduly wasting resources. In general, the described embodiments attempt to obtain desired resources in a just-in-time manner by using reasonably available information to characterize future packet transfers and calculate when resource acquisition should begin. The various embodiments involve calculating when to begin communication resource acquisition by considering a transfer-complete time, a ready-for-next-transfer time, an anticipated start time, and/or an anticipated acquisition time. In wireless communication systems ( 100 ), either the RAN ( 121 ) or the remote units ( 101 ) may be determining when to begin communication resource acquisition involving their air interface ( 111 ). Moreover, the desired resources may include, for example, uplink channels, downlink channels, supplemental channels, data-rate increases for certain channels, and/or FER decreases for certain channels.
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