Patent ID: 8094628

Claim:
A method for communication, comprising: deploying a half-duplex terminal in a full-duplex wireless communication network that supports only full-duplex terminals and is configured to permit simultaneous transmission of downlink paging messages and uplink access messages between a base station and the full-duplex terminals; assigning, to the half-duplex terminal, paging channel slots in a continuous cyclical sequence of the paging channel slots, so that the base station transmits the downlink paging messages to the half-duplex terminal only during the assigned paging channel slots; listening for a downlink paging message from the base station during the assigned paging channel slots; transmitting an uplink access message only during an interval bounded by the assigned paging channel slots; controlling the half-duplex terminal so that the half-duplex terminal transmits the uplink access message only during the interval bounded by the assigned paging channel slots occurring in successive cycles in the sequence; and initiating a connection from the half-duplex terminal to the base station in response to transmitting the uplink access message during the interval bounded by the assigned paging channel slots.