Patent ID: 9191859
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile communications network for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices, the mobile communications network comprising: a core network part including a plurality of infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations which are provided with a wireless access interface for communicating data to or from the mobile communications devices, wherein the mobile communications network is arranged to provide communications bearers on request to the mobile communications devices in accordance with a relative type of data packets communicated via the communications bearers for supporting communications sessions, an indication of the relative type of the data packets being received from one or more of the mobile communication devices and used to configure corresponding ones of the communications bearers, each said indication including an indication of a relative priority of the data packets with respect to communication of data packets via other communications bearers of the mobile communications network, and the mobile communications network includes: circuitry configured to determine a number of communication bearers of each of a plurality of pre-determined types provided to the mobile communications devices within the mobile communications network, and to determine a state of the mobile communications network based on the number of each type of the communications bearers for each of the plurality of pre-determined types, wherein the mobile communications network is configured to control communication of the data packets via the communications bearers in accordance with the determined state of the mobile communications network, and wherein the control of the communication of the data packets via the communications bearers in accordance with the relative priority indicated by the relative type of the data packets includes: storing the data packets in a buffer for communication of the data packets via the communications bearers at a later time in preference to communicating data packets from the other communications bearers at an earlier time with a higher priority.