Patent ID: 9635665
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication system, the method comprising: arranging for one or more machine type communication (MTC) devices to communicate MTC data via a radio interface by using radio resources of the radio interface, the radio resources including an uplink and a downlink of a first radio carrier of the radio interface; arranging for one or more human-to-human (H2H) devices to communicate H2H data via the radio interface; monitoring a volume of the H2H data transmitted via the first radio carrier; determining a duration of a specified data transmission period based on the volume of the H2H data transmitted via the radio interface, the specified transmission period being a period in which transmission of H2H data is restricted; transmitting the duration of the specified data transmission period to the one or more MTC devices; restricting use of the radio resources by the one or more H2H devices during the specified data transmission period by allocating more of the radio resources to the one or more MTC devices than to the one or more H2H devices; restricting use of the radio resources by the one or more MTC devices outside of the specified data transmission period by allocating more of the radio resources outside of the specified data transmission period to the one or more H2H devices than to the MTC devices; and transmitting, during a predefined handover period of time prior to a start time of the specified data transmission period, an indication to the one or more H2H devices that the one or more H2H devices are to cease transmission of the H2H data on the first radio carrier during the specified data transmission period and to transmit the H2H data on a second radio carrier during the specified data transmission period, wherein at least one of the one or more MTC devices determines whether to transmit MTC data during the specified data transmission period based on the duration of the specified data transmission period and a size of the MTC data.