Patent ID: 8494542
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling sector congestion by managing autonomous sector selections by a mobile station being served on a shared high-speed packet data channel, the method comprising: serving the mobile station on the shared high-speed packet data channel from only one radio sector at a time; sharing sector loading information and signal quality information among a set of radio sectors in a wireless communication network that are candidates for serving the mobile station on the shared high-speed packet data channel, wherein said signal quality information corresponds to per-sector received signal quality measurements made by the mobile station, and wherein the set of radio sectors includes sectors from at least two radio base stations; and selectively rejecting an autonomous sector-selection request from the mobile station based on evaluating the shared sector loading information and signal quality information, said sector-selection request targeting a given one of the candidate radio sectors for serving the mobile station on the shared high-speed packet data channel.