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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2016
Interdigital Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Portland, OR (US);
Nihar A. Doshi, Deer Park, NY (US);
Sasidhar Movva, Superior, CO (US);
Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Little Neck, NY (US);
Stephen E. Terry, Northport, NY (US);
Guodong Zhang, Syosset, NY (US);
Gary Schnee, Hauppage, NY (US);
InterDigital Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (PDUs) are disclosed. A controller may, on a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) basis, select a size of a MAC service data unit (SDU) for each of a plurality of logical channels based on information provided by a MAC layer. The controller may then provide a respective first value for each logical channel. Further, the controller may select logical channels for a MAC PDU based on a respective priority of each of the logical channels and on the respective first value of each of the logical channels being greater than zero. Also, the controller may multiplex the MAC SDUs of the selected logical channels to produce the MAC PDU. In addition, the controller may provide a transport block for transmission based on the MAC PDU. The controller and a transmitter may then transmit the provided transport block.