Patent ID: 8107424

Claim:
A method for regulating random accesses in a radio-assisted local network serving radio stations located in a radio coverage area of at least one access point in the radio-assisted local network, at least one remote radio station located outside the radio coverage area of the at least one access point and inside the radio coverage area of a reachable radio station within the radio coverage area of the at least one access point, comprising: temporarily allocating, by the at least one access point, radio resources for sending information, to the radio stations inside the radio coverage area thereof, the radio stations temporarily performing a random access to the radio resources for sending information; sending a signal, from the reachable radio station to the at least one remote radio station, containing information about a feasibility to accept the random access by the at least one remote radio station of the radio resources for sending information, without allocating radio resources; and rejecting the random access of the at least one remote radio station based on the signal.