Patent ID: 8891420

Claim:
A method for wireless communications, comprising: determining capacity of a non-cellular wireless link associated with a wireless broadcast area; determining congestion of a cellular link associated with the wireless broadcast area; based on the determined non-cellular wireless capacity and the determined congestion, selecting a sublayer of a protocol of the cellular link from a plurality of sublayers of the protocol of the cellular link, wherein: the selected sublayer includes a Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer; and the MAC sublayer was selected over a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) sublayer based on a determination that the capacity of the non-cellular wireless link is less than a given capacity benchmark; dividing cellular data to be sent between a wireless device and a base station using the protocol of the cellular link into protocol data units of the sublayer; encapsulating the protocol data units of the sublayer into transmission units of the non-cellular link; and sending the resulting transmission units of the non-cellular wireless link on the non-cellular wireless link.