Patent ID: 8582631

Claim:
A method for managing communication operations of at least one wireless device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: a. generating one or more traffic-control parameters indicative of one or more aspects of communication operations of the at least one wireless device; b. generating a bit sequence indicative of one or more traffic-control parameters; c. communicating the bit sequence to the at least one wireless device by transmitting different portions of the bit sequence in different broadcast messages belonging to a series of broadcast messages transmitted to the at least one wireless device; d. determining, at the at least one wireless device, the one or more traffic-control parameters based on the communicated bit sequence; and e. adapting, at the at least one wireless device, communication operations based on the one or more traffic-control parameters; wherein communications of the at least one wireless device is delay-tolerant, and wherein adapting communication operations at the at least one wireless device comprises limiting communication resource usage by the at least one wireless device in order to facilitate access to said communication resource by at least one other wireless device.