| CPC H04W 28/0268 (2013.01) [H04W 28/24 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a base station distributed unit (BS-DU) from a base station central unit (BS-CU), a message requesting a quality of service (QOS) flow, wherein:
the QoS flow comprises a plurality of protocol data unit (PDU) sets associated with a respective plurality of data units of an application;
each PDU set comprises one or more PDUs of a respective data unit; and
the message comprises:
QoS parameters indicating a packet error rate (PER) and a packet delay budget (PDB) for the QoS flow; and
one or more alternative QoS parameter sets, each alternative QoS parameter set comprising an alternative PDU set error rate (PSER) and an alternative PDU set delay budget (PSDB);
sending, by the BS-DU to the BS-CU, a second message indicating at least one of:
a QoS of the QoS flow not being fulfilled; or
a fulfilled alternative QoS parameter set indicating a fulfilled PSER and a fulfilled PSDB.
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