Patent ID: 8423040

Claim:
A method for managing radio resources according to a traffic pattern of user equipment in a communication network, the method comprising: determining a quality of service (QoS) level of the user equipment based on QoS information associated with the user equipment; setting transition conditions based on the determined QoS level of the user equipment; and managing radio resources associated with the user equipment according to the set transition conditions; wherein, in the setting transition conditions: the transition conditions include a timer having a period and a traffic amount threshold for initiating transition between a first radio resource control (RRC) state and a second RRC state; and the timer having the period and the traffic amount threshold are set according to the determined QoS level of the user equipment; wherein the managing radio resources includes: monitoring an amount of data traffic generated until the timer expires; comparing the generated data traffic amount with the traffic amount threshold; and initiating transition between a first radio resource control (RRC) state and a second RRC state according to the comparison result.