DIFFERENTIAL SCHEDULING FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SERVICES

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for scheduling different types of traffic within a data flow, and providing a different coverage enhancement (CE) levels for the different types of traffic. Lower priority traffic within the IP flow may be scheduled with a lower CE level and higher priority traffic within the data flow may be scheduled with a higher CE level. In some cases, the CE levels may be selected to allow for a delay budget that supports real-time communications, such as a voice over LTE (VoLTE) real-time voice communications for bandwidth limited devices or devices that are bandwidth unrestricted but having poor channel conditions.