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Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 05, 2013
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Sreekar Marupaduga, Overland Park, KS (US);

Nicholas David Kullman, Kansas City, MO (US);

Andrew Mark Wurtenberger, Olathe, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 72/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for to dynamically adjusting the number of uplink grants per random access response (RAR) message. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, for a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless access node having a downlink control channel including a plurality of control channel elements, determining wireless signal conditions for a plurality of wireless devices requesting communication service from the wireless access node. The method further provides allocating a number of the plurality of control channel elements for a random access response message based on the wireless signal conditions. The method further includes transferring a plurality of uplink grants to the plurality of wireless devices in the number of control channel elements.


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