Patent ID: 8995987
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transferring, for delivery to user devices, overhead signaling for a non-long term evolution (LTE) communication protocol over an LTE signaling pathway; identifying control channel congestion for wireless communications exchanged with the user devices over a LTE signaling pathway; and determining when the control channel congestion exceeds a congestion threshold, and responsively transferring the overhead signaling for the non-LTE communication protocol using a non-LTE signaling pathway to ones of the user devices having power headrooms exceeding a headroom threshold, wherein transferring to the user devices the overhead signaling for the non-LTE communication protocol over the LTE signaling pathway comprises transferring to the user devices the overhead signaling for the non-LTE communication protocol over a first multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication mode.