Patent ID: 8565103

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at a wireless device signals transmitted on a control channel including load related messages; determining a probability of targets (j) in a sector based in part on a number of pages (K) included in the load related messages; and estimating a channel load based on the determined probability of targets in the sector, wherein the probability (Pr) of targets (j) in the sector from a number of sectors (M) in a paging zone is determined as: Pr ⁡ ( J = j ∥ j ≥ 1 ) = ( 1 1 - ( 1 - 1 M ) K ) ⁢ { K ! j ! ⁢ ( K - j ) ! ⁢ ( 1 M ) j ⁢ ( M - 1 M ) K - j } .