Methods and devices for radio communications

A communication device comprising:

• a detection circuit configured to determine a battery power level of a communication device by measuring a battery power of a battery of the communication device and to compare the determined battery power level of the communication device to a battery power threshold;
• a classification circuit configured to classify data from one or more applications of the communication device into a plurality of priorities;
• and
• a traffic control circuit configured to throttle the data from the one or more applications based on their respective user-priorities and the comparison of the determined battery power to the battery power threshold;
• wherein the communication device is in a power-constrained scenario when the determined power level is outside of the battery power threshold;
• wherein throttling the data from the one or more applications further comprises throttling data of a first priority at a first level and throttling data of a second priority at a second level;
• wherein throttling the data from the one or more applications further comprises transmitting the data of the first priority with a first transmission delay, and transmitting the data of the second priority with a second transmission delay, wherein the second transmission delay is longer than the first transmission delay;
• wherein the classifying data comprises the classification circuit classifying data into the first priority and the second priority during a time duration based on a priority of an application corresponding to the data to be classified;
• and
• further comprising the traffic control circuit dynamically adjusting the throttling based on a battery life threshold.

A method of reducing power consumption comprising:

• determining a battery power level of a communication device by measuring a battery power of a battery of the communication device;
• comparing the determined battery power level of the communication device to a battery power threshold;
• classifying data from one or more applications of the communication device into a plurality of priorities;
• and
• throttling the data from the one or more applications based on their respective priorities and the comparison of the determined battery power to the battery power threshold;
• wherein the communication device is in a power-constrained scenario when the determined power level is outside of the battery power threshold;
• wherein throttling the data from the one or more applications further comprises transmitting the data of the first priority with a first transmission delay, and transmitting the data of the second priority with a second transmission delay, wherein the second transmission delay is longer than the first transmission delay;
• wherein the classifying data comprises classifying data into the first priority and the second priority during a time duration based on a priority of an application corresponding to the data to be classified;
• and
• further comprising dynamically adjusting the throttling based on a battery power threshold.