Patent ID: 9743327
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, in a wireless communications system, for managing radio traffic load in a first cell served by a first base station, wherein the first cell is at least partly covered by a second cell served by the first base station or a second base station, the method comprising: associating a first group of wireless devices with a potential future event; obtaining information about a future load of radio traffic in the first cell that is expected to be generated by the first group of wireless devices in response to an occurrence of the potential future event; responsive to an occurrence of the potential future event, providing, based on the obtained information, a change of serving cell so that at least one wireless device not in said first group being served in the first cell by the first base station instead becomes served in the second cell by the first base station or the second base station.