SCHEDULING BY A FRACTION OF REMAINING TIME TO BE ALLOCATED OVER REMAINING SERVICE INTERVAL

摘要

A method of scheduling by a fraction of remaining time to be allocated over a remaining service interval, wherein with respect to a minimum of delay bound or a maximum service interval for a traffic stream, servicing first a particular stream "i" with the highest ratio of the remaining channel time to be allocated in a service period SP to the remaining time is to be serviced first before the service period SP elapses. The sub-steps include (a) obtaining a factor U; for each particular traffic stream i of a plurality of traffic streams, wherein U, for each particular traffic stream I of a plurality of traffic streams, wherein (equation I), otherwise Ui =1, wherein T<i>ar is equal to remaining time to be allocated, and T<i>dr is equal to time before an initial Service period S<i>p including at least one of a Delay Bound and a Maximum Service Interval elapses; (b) selecting a particular Ui factor obtained in step (a) that has a maximum value of the plurality of streams; and (c) servicing the particular stream selected in step (b) by providing channel access time.