Method and system for priority-based state transition for high speed data transmission and wireless access networks

An apparatus adapted to control transitioning a plurality of wireless devices between a plurality of states having increasing resource intensity from a least resource intensive state to a most resource intensive second state comprising:

• a state scheduler adapted to:
• a) rank all power-on wireless devices;
• b) assign a respective subset of the power-on wireless devices to each state, the power-on wireless devices of the subsets having rankings which increase with resource intensity of the state;
• and
• c) signal to the wireless devices to instruct them to implement any change in state.

An apparatus for transitioning a plurality of wireless devices between a plurality of states having increasing resource intensity from a least resource intensive state to a most resource intensive second state comprising:

• means for ranking all power-on wireless devices;
• means for assigning a respective subset of the power-on wireless devices to each state, the power-on wireless devices of the subsets having rankings which increase with resource intensity of the state;
• and
• means for signalling to the wireless devices to instruct them to implement any change in state.

A processing platform readable medium having code stored thereon for execution by a processing platform, for, when executed transitioning a plurality of wireless devices between a plurality of states having increasing resource intensity from a least resource intensive state to a most resource intensive second state, the processing platform readable comprising:

• code means for ranking all power-on wireless devices;
• code means for assigning a respective subset of the power-on wireless devices to each state, the power-on wireless devices of the subsets having rankings which increase with resource intensity of the state;
• and
• code means for generating signalling messages to be transmitted to the wireless devices to instruct them to implement any change in state.