Patent ID: 8416741

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining, by a base station, an uplink signal strength for a machine-to-machine (M2M) device using a wireless network; setting, by the base station and when the uplink signal strength is below a particular threshold, a default uplink transmission mode for the M2M device to employ transmission time interval (TTI) bundling; setting, by the base station and when the uplink signal strength is not below the particular threshold, the default uplink transmission mode for the M2M device to not employ TTI bundling; determining, by the base station, an uplink transport format for the M2M device based on the uplink signal strength and the default uplink transmission mode; sending, by the base station and to an M2M server, the default uplink transmission mode and the uplink transport format for storage; retrieving, by the base station and from the M2M server, the stored default uplink transmission mode and the stored uplink transport format from the M2M server; and constructing, by the base station for the M2M device, an uplink scheduling grant based on the stored default uplink transmission mode and the stored uplink transport format.