Patent ID: 9014070
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of operation of a wireless access node in a dense deployment of wireless access nodes in a cellular communication network comprising: operating a transmitter and a receiver of the wireless access node according to a discontinuous transmit and discontinuous receive, DTX/DRX, mode of operation, wherein a plurality of duty cycles are predefined for the DTX/DRX mode of operation and each duty cycle of the plurality of duty cycles is assigned to one or more of a plurality of alertness states; changing an alertness state of the wireless access node from a select one of the plurality of alertness states for the wireless access node to a different one of the plurality of alertness states; changing a common duty cycle for both an active transmit interval and an active receive interval for the DTX/DRX mode of operation to the duty cycle assigned to the different one of the plurality of alertness states in response to changing the alertness state of the wireless access node from the select one of the plurality of alertness states to the different one of the plurality of alertness states.