Patent ID: 8089883

Claim:
A method for controlling transmission of at least one request which is a radio resource request between a first access node of a plurality of access nodes and at least one neighboring access node, in a radio communications system, comprising: verifying a class of a plurality of classes of the at least one request to be transmitted, the class being assigned by the first access node indicating a priority of the at least one request, and controlling the transmission of the at least one request depending upon one or more of the class that was verified, a timer and at least one parameter of the request, and wherein radio resource management is configured to be distributed throughout the radio communications system in form of the plurality of access nodes and the first access node as a radio resource management unit requests the radio resource request with the assigned class, and wherein said controlling the transmission is predefined or dynamically selected to be controlled using at least one of a timer and at least one parameter of the request, and wherein the timer uses a time value, and wherein upon expiration of the time value, said controlling the transmission of the at least one request having a class belonging to one of the at least one further class is effected.