Patent ID: 8254406
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless access node, wherein the wireless access node exchanges overhead information with user devices in a series of repeating overhead time cycles, and wherein the overhead time cycles each comprise a multi-user message and a plurality of single-user messages, the method comprising: transmitting the multi-user messages comprising network parameters for receipt and use by all of the user devices; transmitting the single-user messages comprising paging messages for receipt and use by individual ones of the user devices; in response to the single-user messages, receiving acknowledge messages comprising RF condition indicators for the single-user messages; if any of the RF condition indicators are below a performance threshold, then suspending further transmission of at least a portion of the multi-user messages in the series of repeating overhead time cycles and transmitting additional single-user messages in at least one of the overhead time cycles of the portion of multi-user messages; and if none of the RF condition indicators are below the performance threshold, then continuing further transmission of the multi-user messages in the series of repeating overhead time cycles.