METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUFFER STATUS REPORTING IN A DUAL CONNECTIVITY ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to enhance buffer status reporting in a dual connectivity environment. In a first embodiment, the method establishes a resource quota configuration to use for allocating resources for each of the links connected to a communication device. In a second embodiment, the method may receive a BSR from the communication device, wherein the BSR requests uplink transmission of a first amount of data using only the first link, and requests uplink transmission of a second amount of data using any of the plurality of links, and transmitting a resource scheduling grant to the communication device based on the BSR. In a third embodiment, the method may provide the communication device with the resource quota for each link to optimize the BSR. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.