FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: resources are assigned by a network to set up or reconfigure a TBF associated with uplink/downlink transmission of radio blocks from/to an MS. Delay-sensitive services, e.g. media and multimedia real-time transmission, use new window sizes with scaled down values remapped to start from 1 to (maximum) 64 RLC/MAC blocks. The scaling bit is asserted or negated by BSC. Both peer entities contained in a TBF receive the RLC/MAC messages with the proper setting of the scaling bit and the 5-bit coding information element; these entities decode the scaling bit and behave accordingly. The behaviour involves either assuming the standard window size or scaled window size addressed by the same predetermined 5-bit "coding" information element.
EFFECT: reduced real transmission delay.
9 cl, 4 dwg
