Patent ID: 7580362

Claim:
A method in a communication system, comprising the steps of: a control unit requesting from an access point a number of periodic measurement reports regarding a number of links handled by the access point; receiving at the control unit said requested number of periodic measurement reports from the access point over a control interface connecting said control unit with said access point and having a limited total capacity for forwarding measurement reports; and determining dynamically a frequency for periodical reporting of each periodic measurement report from the access point to the control unit based on information on said number of links currently handled by the access point and such that a total aggregate frequency of periodical reporting of said number of periodic measurement reports does not exceed said limited total capacity of the control interface, wherein the step of determining the frequencies for periodical reporting of each periodic measurement report is accomplished according to the formula f r =k*w r , wherein f r denotes the frequency for periodic measurement report r, w r denotes a weighting coefficient defining a priority for the periodic measurement report r, k is a factor dynamically determined as: k ≤ F ∑ r ⁢ w r and F is the limited total capacity of the control interface expressed in reports per second.