Patent ID: 8301154
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting data in a radio communications system, comprising: providing a common channel allocated concurrently to a plurality of subscribers for data transmission between a base station and subscriber stations of the subscribers; taking measurements in the subscriber stations of transmission quality of the common channel for each of the subscriber stations; transmitting the measurements to the base station so as to make the measurements available to the base station; and transmitting from the base station a first message to a controlling radio network controller allocated to the base station when the measurements show that the transmission quality does not meet a first defined criterion, the first message containing information about the transmission quality and an identifier of at least one particular subscriber station for which the measurements indicated that the transmission quality meets a second criterion, wherein the measurements of transmission quality are based on at least one of a transmission rate via the common channel and determining a ratio of a number of elapsed timers relative to a total number of allocated timers.