Patent ID: 8576719

Claim:
A system for dynamically balancing a maximum number of active remote device users that can be serviced between first and second base stations transmitting data frames via carriers in a radio communication system, wherein the carriers of the first and second base stations operate at different radio frequency bandwidths X and Y respectively, wherein Y is substantially larger than X, comprising: a system control circuit that controls an amount of radio resources in an uplink control channel region of the data frames transmitted by the first base station, and a traffic monitoring circuit that monitors a number of active wireless device users within broadcast coverage of said first base station, wherein the system control circuit increases the amount of radio resources in the uplink control channel region of the frames transmitted by said first base station to increase the number of users that said first base station can support to equal or at least approach a maximum number of users the second base station can support when the number of active wireless device users of the first base station exceeds a first preselected number, wherein the traffic monitoring circuit also monitors an uplink load for said first base station, and the system control circuit increases the amount of radio resources in the uplink control channel region of the frames transmitted by the first base station when the number of active wireless device users exceeds said first preselected number and said uplink load is below a first preselected threshold indicative of a low load condition, wherein the system control circuit refrains from increasing the amount of radio resources in the uplink control channel region of the frames transmitted by the first base station when the number of active wireless device users exceeds said first preselected number and said uplink load is above a second preselected threshold indicative of a high load condition, and wherein the system control circuit increases the amount of radio resources in the uplink control channel region of the frames transmitted by the first base station when the uplink load is between said first and second thresholds, the number of active wireless device users exceeds said first preselected number, and a number of uplink bursts transmitted for a lowest modulation control scheme divided by a total number of bursts is less than a preselected percentage, but refrains from increasing the amount of radio resources in the uplink control channel region when said number of uplink bursts transmitted for the lowest modulation control scheme divided by the total number of bursts is equal to or greater than said preselected percentage.