Mobile Terminal Category Signaling for Resource Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current networking technologies face inefficiencies in allocating common resources to mobile terminals, such as enhanced dedicated channels, without knowing the terminal's capability level, leading to potential resource wastage.
Innovation Solution
Mobile terminals transmit an indication of their category and identity through medium access control inbound signaling, allowing network nodes to allocate a portion of the common resource efficiently based on the terminal's capabilities, ensuring no excess resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If common resources are allocated to mobile terminals without knowing terminal capability level, then resource allocation can be performed, but resource wastage occurs due to allocation of larger portion than terminal can utilize
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal transmits its category indication to the network node before resource allocation occurs. This preliminary action provides the network node with necessary information about terminal capabilities, enabling it to allocate the appropriate portion of common resources in advance, thus preventing resource wastage while maintaining allocation efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces a new parameter (terminal category indication) that characterizes terminal capabilities. By changing the allocation decisions based on this parameter, the network node can match resource portions to terminal capabilities, resolving the contradiction between allocation efficiency and resource wastage
2Productivity
If terminal category indication is transmitted through MAC-i signaling, then resource allocation can be optimized, but signaling complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal category indication is transmitted using existing MAC-i signaling, which is already used for other purposes in the system. By making the signaling multi-functional, the invention achieves optimized resource allocation without adding separate dedicated signaling channels, thus minimizing the increase in signaling complexity
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for facilitating allocation of a common resource to a terminal. A method may include transmitting one or more inbound packet data units including an indication of a category of a terminal and an indication of an identity of the terminal to a network node responsible for managing allocation of a common resource to the terminal. The method may further include receiving an absolute grant of a portion of the common resource to the terminal, wherein the absolute grant is issued by the network node based at least in part upon the transmitted indication of the category of the terminal. Corresponding systems and apparatuses are also provided.