Patent ID: 9655004
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A radio device system comprising: a load-balancing device configured to distribute data traffic to a plurality of radio devices; a radio device, of the plurality of radio devices, that comprises a queue that receives data packets, of the data traffic, that are sent to the radio device from the load-balancing device; wherein the load-balancing device is configured to: determine whether the radio device is no longer functioning correctly; in response to determining that the radio device is no longer functioning correctly, redistribute the data packets, of the data traffic, that would otherwise have been received by the radio device if the radio device had been functioning correctly, to another radio device of the plurality of radio devices; wherein the radio device is configured to: determine whether a current queue depth of the queue of the radio device is at least as great as an upper threshold; in response to determining that the current queue depth of the queue of the radio device is at least as great as an upper threshold, send, to the load balancing device, a stop message that instructs the load balancing device to at least temporarily stop sending packets to the radio device and continue sending data, of the data traffic, to another radio device of the plurality of radio devices.