Patent ID: 9693259
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method in a base station of a communication system that comprises a transport network interconnecting the base station with at least a gateway node and that further comprises one or more user equipments, the method comprising: obtaining transport network congestion information; adjusting, based on the transport network congestion information, a radio resource utilization parameter for at least one user equipment of the one or more user equipments, wherein the radio resource utilization parameter comprises a ratio of an actual number of used radio resources for the at least one user equipment in a predefined radio resource block to a total number of radio resources in the predefined radio resource block; determining a discontinuous reception parameter for the at least one user equipment based on the radio resource utilization parameter; and transmitting, to the at least one user equipment, the discontinuous reception parameter, enabling the at least one user equipment to go into a discontinuous reception mode.