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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2012
Chandrika K. Worrall, Newbury, GB;
Sudeep K. Palat, Swindon, GB;
Pingping Wen, Shanghai, CN;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
The invention provides a method and apparatus for configuring a plurality of scheduling request triggers for a user equipment in a communication system. First, the base station determines a plurality of scheduling request triggers and a transmission type of each of the plurality of scheduling request triggers for the user equipment, based on the service characteristics of services of the user equipment; and then the base station transmits configuration information of the plurality of scheduling request triggers to the user equipment, the configuration information of the plurality of scheduling request triggers including the allocation way of the plurality of scheduling request triggers with respect to the services of the user equipment and the transmission type of each of the plurality of scheduling request triggers. The user equipment first receives the configuration information from the base station. After that the user equipment selects a scheduling request trigger corresponding to the current service based on the service characteristics of current service to be transmitted and the allocation way, and transmits the triggered scheduling request via the transmission type corresponding to the scheduling request trigger. By applying the technical solution of the invention, the efficient radio resource utilization could be achieved.