METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRANSMISSION ON A REVERSE LINK IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

Systems and methods for decreasing delays and thereby improving the performance of data transmissions in wireless communication systems by enabling increased data transmission rates to be selected for a reverse link between an access terminal and an access network. The new data rate is selected from several limiting rates, including a data-justified rate and a ramp-up-limited rate. In one embodiment, the data-justified rate is constrained to decrease in a controlled manner and cannot suddenly drop to 0. In another embodiment, the ramp-up-limited rate is allowed to return quickly to a sticky rate if the system is not busy rather than having to ramp up to the sticky rate according to the standard probabilities.