MAC Uplink Resource Prioritization for Overlapping SR and Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless communication systems face challenges in seamlessly providing services due to conflicts and collisions among multiple resources, leading to inefficient resource usage and degraded performance indicators.

Innovation Solution

A method and user equipment for prioritizing uplink radio resources based on priority values, excluding lower-priority resources from transmission to ensure high-priority resources are used effectively, thereby optimizing resource allocation and reducing inefficiencies.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If multiple uplink radio resources are allocated simultaneously, then service diversity and data transmission capacity are improved, but resource conflicts and collisions occur leading to degraded performance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transmission capacityVSAvoidperformance indicators
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces priority values as a new parameter to characterize uplink radio resources. By assigning different priority values to different resources, the system enables differentiated handling of conflicting resources, allowing high-priority resources to be transmitted while low-priority resources are dropped, thus resolving resource conflicts while maintaining overall system productivity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the set of uplink radio resources into different priority levels. By dividing resources into high-priority and low-priority groups, the system can apply different transmission strategies to each segment, ensuring that critical data transmission is maintained while non-critical transmissions are managed during resource conflicts

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If resource allocation is increased to support more services, then service coverage is improved, but resource conflicts and collisions increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice coverageVSAvoidresource conflicts
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent adds priority values as a distinguishing parameter for different uplink radio resources. This parameter enables the system to differentiate between resources allocated for different services, allowing the network to identify and resolve conflicts by prioritizing certain services over others when resource collisions occur

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The priority value acts as an intermediary mechanism between resource allocation and conflict resolution. By introducing this intermediate parameter, the system can mediate resource conflicts through prioritization rules, enabling seamless service provision even when multiple services compete for the same resources

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP4093131B1Prioritization method and device for plurality of collision resources
Publication Date: 2025.09.24 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is an operating method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the operating method including determining, by a medium access control (MAC) entity, a resource corresponding to an uplink radio resource or a scheduling request (SR) transmission resource, identifying, by the MAC entity, at least one uplink radio resource or at least one SR transmission resource other than a deprioritized resource, which overlaps with the resource on a time axis, and identifying, by the MAC entity, a prioritized resource for transmitting at least one of data, control information, or an SR, based on the priority of the at least one uplink radio resource other than the deprioritized resource, the priority of the at least one SR transmission resource other than the deprioritized resource, and a priority of the resource.