Patent ID: 8565195

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a serving radio network controller, a first message from a network element in a communication network, wherein the first message comprises a first parameter that is indicative of whether or not uplink gating is supported by a cell under a base station in the communication network, wherein the communication network comprises a wideband code divisional multiple access network, wherein the network element comprises one of the base station, a drifting radio network controller and a controlling radio network controller; and sending a second message from the serving radio network controller to the network element comprising an instruction for uplink gating in the cell, wherein the second message comprises a second parameter indicating that the uplink gating is activated or deactivated, wherein the second message further comprises at least one of: a third parameter indicating a length of a gating pattern for the uplink gating, a fourth parameter indicating a length of a burst in a gating pattern for the uplink gating, a fifth parameter indicating a length of a preamble to be transmitted after a transmission gap and before data transmission, and a sixth parameter indicating an offset of a start-point of a gating pattern as compared to a starting point of a radio frame.