A mobile communications base station has a service quality detection unit
that monitors and measures communication qualities of wireless terminals
currently located in the service area, and a packet classification unit
that classifies packets addressed to the wireless terminals into two or
more groups based on the measured communication qualities. The base
station also has a buffering delay measuring unit that measures buffering
delay of the packets for each of the groups. A transmission priority
detection unit of the base station determines the order of priority for
transmitting the packets based on the measured buffering delay in
comparison with a prescribed threshold value. A resource allocation unit
of the base station allocates the radio resources to the packets based on
the order of priority to transmit the packets to the associated wireless
terminals.