Patent ID: 11968722
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform:
receiving, from an access device of a network, an indication of configured resources and of at least one identified support device and of a plurality of identified terminal devices to use a proxy-based random network access operation, wherein the at least one identified support device is instructed by the indication to act as a proxy for the proxy-based random access operation; and
transmitting, from one of the plurality of identified terminal devices to the identified support device, contention-based transmissions for initiating the proxy-based random access operation,
wherein the indication is received in response to a determination of an overload situation of the network if a group paging request has been received from the network.