Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive downlink data; determine a schedule of a set of uplink channel resources associated with a medium access control layer; alter a behavior of data layer traffic based at least in part on a characteristic of the uplink channel resources; and transmit a feedback message in connection with one or more of the uplink channel resources and based at least in part on altering the behavior of the data layer traffic. Numerous other aspects are provided.