RESOURCES ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF DELAY SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

The invention provides a communications system 100 and a method for predicting the path 113 of a moving mobile terminal 110 and upon receipt of a request for data from the terminal, assesses, the likely location of optimum quality of service 116 and decides whether the terminal will reach this position within a given time period 114. If not, resources are 1 allocated immediately 112. If yes, the resources are allocated at a time when the terminal is predicted to be at the required location 116. This ensures that the information transfer between the mobile terminal and the communications device occurs at the correct point in time depending on the prediction of optimum service quality.