Machine-to-machine communications over fixed wireless networks

A method, comprising:

• establishing, by a base station and with a M2M device, a radio resource control (RRC) connection for a wireless network;
• retrieving, by the base station and from a server, transmission mode information and transport format information for the M2M device;
• constructing, by the base station, an uplink scheduling grant, for the M2M device, based on the retrieved transmission mode information and transport format information;
• supplementing, by the base station, the uplink scheduling grant with live information associated with the wireless network, to form a supplemented uplink scheduling grant;
• sending, by the base station and to the M2M device, the supplemented uplink scheduling grant;
• and
• receiving, by the base station and from the M2M device, event data for M2M communications, where the event data is transmitted in accordance with the supplemented uplink scheduling grant.

One or more devices, comprising:

• a memory to store a plurality of instructions;
• and
• a processor to execute instructions in the memory to:
• determine an uplink signal strength for a machine-to-machine (M2M) device using a wireless access network,
• identify a default uplink transmission mode that requires the M2M device to employ transmission time interval (TTI) bundling, when the uplink signal strength is below a particular threshold,
• identify a default uplink transmission mode that requires the M2M device to not employ TTI bundling, when the uplink signal strength is not below the particular threshold,
• store, in the memory, the default transmission mode for the M2M device,
• retrieve, from the memory and during a wake-up time window associated with the M2M device, the default transmission mode for the M2M device, and
• construct, for the M2M device, an uplink scheduling grant based on the stored default transmission mode.