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US 2008/0165747 A1Published application
Method of throttling uplink traffic in a wireless communication system
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsKenneth C. Budka, Wolfgang Lesch, Guenter Lothar Wolf
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Abstract
The method for throttling uplink traffic in a wireless communication system includes inserting an unassigned state flag in a downlink time slot. A state flag indicates, when assigned, which mobile station should transmit during an uplink time slot associated with the downlink time slot.
Claims7
A method for controlling uplink traffic in a wireless communication system, comprising:
- inserting an uplink state flag into a downlink time slot based on a severity of network overload, the inserted uplink state flag not being currently assigned to a mobile station, such that inclusion of the inserted uplink state flag in the downlink time slot indicates that no mobile station is permitted to transmit during a corresponding uplink time slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.