Patent ID: 8355370
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication system comprising: a base station; and a plurality of fixed or mobile subscriber stations, the base station maintaining connections with each of the subscriber stations by performing wireless communication in units of frames, wherein each frame includes a downlink subframe for transmissions from the base station to the subscriber stations, and an uplink subframe for transmissions from the subscriber stations the base station and within each frame, the base station allocating resources for data transmissions and signalling in the wireless communication system, wherein each frame includes a shared channel included in the uplink subframe and provided for the subscriber stations to report a connection quality to the base station, the resources allocated to the shared channel being less than the total resources needed for every subscriber station to report, and each report includes information about the transmission quality in an immediately-preceding downlink subframe with an indication of whether a threshold condition has been met, the base station being arranged to communicate the threshold condition to the subscriber stations within the downlink subframe.