Patent ID: 8725158
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of redistributing capacity for a network having a plurality of cells configured to each facilitate communications over one or more of a plurality of primary channels, each cell having a plurality of sectors where each sector is configured to predominately communicate over at least one of the plurality of primary channels, the method comprising: determining an overloaded sector of the plurality of sectors, the overloaded sector being desired to increase communication capacity during an overload period; instructing the overloaded sector to simultaneously communicate, at least during the overload period, over a secondary channel and the corresponding primary channel; instructing supporting sectors proximate to the overloaded sector to communicate, at least during the overload period, over the secondary channel; instructing a device within the overloaded sector to simultaneously communicate with the supporting sectors and the overloaded sector over the secondary channel; and instructing the device to implement upstream parameters for upstream communications over the secondary channel, the upstream parameters specifying conditions at which upstream signals from the device are to be communicated over the secondary channel in order to be received with synchronization.