COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING AND BALANCING THE BIT RATES OF TRANSPORT CHANNELS TO THE BIT RATE OF A PHYSICAL CHANNEL

摘要

A communications system (100) and method (600) are provided that enables the balancing and rate matching of different types of services used simultaneously by a mobile terminal (130). More specifically, the communications system (100) includes a network (120) and mobile terminal (130) either of which is capable of matching the bit rates of a plurality of transport channels (300) each handling a service to a bit rate of a physical channel handling multiplexed services using relative offset measures and predefined rules. The network (120) assigns and signals the relative offset measures to the mobile terminal (130).