The present invention relates to a method and a telecommunication
system for allocation and priority handling and a Node-B in the
system enabling said method. The telecommunication
system comprises at least one
radio network controller (RNC) 12,12',12'', and at least one Node-B (NB) 11,11',11'' for enabling
wireless communication with at least one user terminal (UE) 15. The RNC 12,12', 12'' establishes at least one enhanced dedicated transport channel (E-DCH) which enables uplink
data traffic with a determined maximum
data rate from the user terminal (UE) 15 to the Node-B (NB) 11,11', 11''. The RNC 12,12',12'' further establishes at least one high speed DL shared channel (HS-DSCH) which enables downlink
data traffic with a determined maximum
data rate from the Node-B (NB) 11,11',11'' to the user terminal (UE) 15. The Node-B (NB) 11,11',11'' comprises a HSDPA scheduler (HS-S) scheduling the
data rate for the DL
data traffic via the HS- DSCH and a EUL scheduler (EUL-S) scheduling the maximum data rate for the UL data traffic via the E-DCH. What particularly characterizes the invention is that the Node-B (NB) 11,11',11'' exchanges data rate information between the HSDPA scheduler (HS-S) and the EUL scheduler (EUL-S). Furthermore, the Node-B (NB) 11,11',11'' monitors the quotient (Q) between DL data rate and the UL data rate. Finally, when Q fulfils determined
traffic conditions the HSDPA scheduler (HS-S) and / or the EUL scheduler (EUL-S) changes the allocation and / or the priority handling of the UL and / or the DL resources.