“…If a number of TFCs offer the same best possible QoS to the highest priority data, the TFC is selected based on the ability of each TFC to offer the best possible QoS to the next highest priority data, and so on. Of particular interest to our work is the work of S. Heier et al [3,4,5], that presents a number of interesting studies of MAC layer TFC management functionality in UTRAN. These publications all use a fixed TFC allocation technique, similar to that presented in the GERAN standards, for controlling access of the various active TrCHs to the available TFCs.…”