Scheduling of CA

As defined in protocols, the carrier aggregation of the CA UE to the PDCP and

RLC layers is transparent. Entities that have carriers in the MAC layer are
aggregated, and they are independent HARQ entity and provide resource
mapping, HARQ and channel coding. Therefore, the MAC knows the scheduling
activities of each carrier so that the scheduling becomes more flexible.

The GBR, if GBR is greater than GBR split threshold, when Scc activated, GBR
will schedule on PCC and SCC to guarantee QOS.

The NGBR, to achieve relative fairness between CA and non-CA UEs, performs
differential scheduling through the following two policies:
Fair scheduling: When the CA UE calculates the priority, the historical traffic uses the
total traffic of each carrier as the denominator. Under the same channel conditions,
although the non-CA UE has only one carrier, it has a relative high PF priority.
Therefore, the fairness between the non-CA UE and CA UE in terms of traffic and
physical resource is achieved.
Differential scheduling: When the CA UE calculates the priority, the historical traffic
uses the traffic of each carrier as the denominator. Under the same channel
conditions, the non-CA UE and CA UE achieve relative fairness on this carrier.
However, the CA UE performs scheduling on two carriers by using double resources
temporarily. Therefore, the CA UE traffic is far more than the non-CA UE traffic.

The scheduling strategies above can be performed by configuring differentiated

scheduling scaling factor:

This version can configure CA differentiated scheduling scaling factor on EMS to

select the scheduling strategy of non-CA UE and CA UE, and the range of scaling
factor is [0,1]. The greater value indicates the more opportunity for non-CA UE
scheduling, and the traffic of non-CA UE and CAUE tends to be even. The value
1 means fair scheduling, and value 0 means differentiated scheduling.