COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING AND BALANCING THE BIT RATES OF TRANSPORT CHANNELS TO THE BIT RATE OF A PHYSICAL CHANNEL

摘要

A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (100) AND METHOD ARE PROVIDED THAT ENABLES THE BALANCING AND RATE MATCHING OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SERVICES USED SIMULTANEOUSLY BY A MOBILE TERMINAL. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (100) INCLUDES A NETWORK (120) AND MOBILE TERMINAL (130) EITHER OF WHICH IS CAPABLE OF MATCHING (610) THE BIT RATES OF A PLURALITY OF TRANSPORT CHANNELS (300) EACH HANDLING A SERVICE TO A BIT RATE OF A PHYSICAL CHANNEL (316) HANDLING MULTIPLEXED SERVICES USING RELATIVE OFFSET MEASURES AND PREDEFINED RULES. THE NETWORK (120) ASSIGNS AND SIGNALS THE RELATIVE OFFSET MEASURES TO THE MOBILE TERMINAL (130). FIG. 1