Patent ID: 8711791

Claim:
A method of managing wireless transmissions from a mobile handset operating in a wireless network associated therewith, the method comprising the steps of: using a processor in wireless communication with the mobile handset via the wireless network, determining whether the mobile handset is a source of a Random Access Channel (RACH) overload in the wireless network; and upon determining that the mobile handset is a source of the RACH overload, configuring the mobile handset, using the processor, to replace usage of a first RACH resource causing the RACH overload with usage of a second RACH resource specified by the processor; wherein the mobile handset is part of a group of mobile handsets causing the RACH overload in the wireless network, wherein the second RACH resource includes a first set of preamble sequences for a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) in radio frames transmitted from mobile handsets in the group, and wherein the first set of preamble sequences is different from a second set of preamble sequences for the PRACH in the first RACH resource, and wherein the method further comprises the step of: using the processor, instructing each mobile handset in the group of mobile handsets to use approximately a same cyclic shift in a mobile handset-specific preamble sequence from the first set of preamble sequences.