Patent ID: 8457050
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication device to select an overhead time cycle for the wireless communication device among a series of repeating overhead time cycles associated with a wireless access node, wherein each overhead time cycle comprises a plurality of time slots, and wherein the wireless access node transfers overhead information during individual ones of the time slots, the method comprising: in the wireless communication device, receiving correlation information for each of the overhead time cycles, wherein the correlation information indicates a noise range associated with each of the overhead time cycles; in the wireless communication device, determining a noise level at the wireless communication device of wireless communications of the wireless access node; in the wireless communication device, processing the noise level and the correlation information to select one of the overhead time cycles for the wireless communication device; in the wireless communication device, indicating the selected one of the overhead time cycles to the wireless access node; and in the wireless communication device, monitoring the time slots of the selected one of the overhead time cycles for the overhead information from the wireless access node, and ignoring the time slots during the non-selected overhead time cycles.