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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2000
Santosh P Abraham, Keasbey, NJ (US);
Mooi Choo Chuah, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Kameswara Rao Medapalli, Ocean, NJ (US);
Ashwin Sampath, Somerset, NJ (US);
Santosh P Abraham, Keasbey, NJ (US);
Mooi Choo Chuah, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Kameswara Rao Medapalli, Ocean, NJ (US);
Ashwin Sampath, Somerset, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) based wireless system, a wireless network element (e.g., a base station) exchanges information with another wireless network element (e.g., a radio network controller) via data frames (uplink or downlink). Each data frame comprising a header portion and a payload portion, which comprises a QoS class indicator field. Illustratively, the eight bit spare extension field of a UTRAN data frame (uplink or downlink) is used to convey a four bit payload type indicator and a four bit QoS class indicator.