Patent ID: 8817709
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless terminal comprising: monitoring, at the wireless terminal, a recurring set of time and frequency resource units to determine a level of congestion in a communications system; and determining, at the wireless terminal, a portion of a communications channel to be used by said wireless terminal for transmission purposes based on the determined level of congestion, said communications channel being one of a plurality of communications channels in said communications system; wherein said portion of the communications channel is a fraction of the communications channel, the method further comprising: broadcasting, from the wireless terminal, control information indicating the fraction of the communications channel which is being occupied by said wireless terminal, said fraction corresponding to the determined portion of the communications channel to be used by said wireless terminal; wherein monitoring at the wireless terminal, a recurring set of time and frequency resource units to determine a level of congestion includes: monitoring time and frequency resource units corresponding to a peer discovery communications channel, said peer discovery channel being one of said plurality of communications channels.