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Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2013
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Riikka Susitaival, Helsinki, FI;

Stefan Wager, Espoo, FI;

Jessica Ă–stergaard, Stockholm, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04L 1/188 (2013.01); H04W 72/1284 (2013.01); H04W 74/085 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method and arrangement in a user equipment for transmitting scheduling requests to a base station. The base station is adapted to serve the user equipment. The user equipment is configured to transmit scheduling requests to the base station only at certain predetermined scheduling request opportunities. The method comprises triggering a scheduling request transmission, transmitting a scheduling request to the base station at the next occurring scheduling request opportunity, starting a scheduling request prohibiting timer and prohibiting any further scheduling request retransmission at future scheduling request opportunities while the scheduling request prohibiting timer is running. Also, a corresponding method and arrangement in a base station are described.


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