System and method of providing a medium access control scheduler
US11800552B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 3, 2021 |
| Grant date | Oct 24, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 3, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L1/0009
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of operating an uplink scheduler as part of a medium access control scheduler on a satellite includes selecting, from a plurality of user terminals, a first number of zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, selecting, from the plurality of user terminals, a second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, binning the second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals into a plurality of bins based on a respective bandwidth requirement for each non-zero-bandwidth request user terminal and based on a minimum user terminal grant and allocating, according to a grant allocation algorithm, a respective grant of radio resources in an uplink frame to each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals into a respective bin of the plurality of bins in an order associated with increasing bandwidth needs. A downlink scheduler is also disclosed.
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