Patent ID: 9591511
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining a quality of service level for network traffic associated with a wireless communication device (WCD), wherein the WCD is served by an air interface of a radio access network (RAN), wherein the air interface includes a primary signaling channel and a secondary signaling channel, and wherein the primary signaling channel simultaneously spans all of a plurality of contiguous subcarrier frequencies and the secondary signaling channel does not simultaneously span all of the plurality of contiguous subcarrier frequencies; based on the quality of service level for the network traffic associated with the WCD, selecting the primary signaling channel or the secondary signaling channel for transmission of a signaling message to the WCD; and transmitting, by a RAN device, the signaling message to the WCD via the selected signaling channel.