Patent ID: 9191987
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining an amount of available wireless communication resources in a reception area; determining a number of wireless communication nodes in the reception area; generating a reservation limit of the available wireless communication resources; determining an inability to allocate the reservation limit of the available wireless communication resources; transmitting a request for release of resources to at least one other wireless communication node, the request for release including an indication of the reservation limit; attempting to allocate available wireless communication resources, resources that have been released by at least one other wireless node based on the reservation limit, and temporarily limiting the number of allocated resources to the reservation limit; and transmitting a release message to the at least one other wireless communication node, to enable at least one other wireless communication node to attempt to re-allocate resources that it released in response to the request for release of resources.