Patent ID: 8509242

Claim:
A method in a communication system for managing traffic transmitted by multiple communication terminals, each of said multiple communication terminals having data flows present in at least one transmit data buffer and a respective default prioritizing scheme for assigning transmission priorities to each said data flow, said method comprising the steps of: detecting a switching event based on information of an estimated distribution of data flows in a first sub-portion of said communication system; selecting, based on said switching event detection, a temporary prioritizing scheme among multiple pre-defined temporary prioritizing schemes, each temporary prioritizing scheme being associated with a respective restoring criterion that defines a reversal back to said default prioritizing scheme; generating, based on said selected temporary prioritizing scheme, a prioritizing scheme update message comprising information of said selected temporary prioritizing scheme, said selected temporary prioritizing scheme assigning temporary transmission priorities to said data flows to obtain a temporary switch of data transmission pattern in a second sub-portion of said communication system; and, transmitting said prioritizing scheme update message to at least one communication terminal in said second sub-portion of said communication system to obtain said temporary switch of data transmission pattern; wherein each of said first and second sub-portions defines a wireless transmission region of said communication system, and wherein said second sub-portion includes at least a base station, and said first sub-portion includes said second sub-portion and at least one other base station.