Network-controlled adaptive terminal behavior managing high-network-load scenarios

摘要

A network device may detect a high traffic load for a wireless access network associated with the network device, and broadcast, to mobile terminals in the wireless access network associated with the network device, a signaling message indicating the high traffic load. The signaling message causes a mobile terminal to selectively limit wireless network access requests to the network device.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
detecting, by a network device, a high traffic load for a wireless access network associated with the network device, wherein the detecting includes identifying a trend toward a particular capacity limit that is projected to be achieved within a certain time period; sending, by the network device via a broadcast channel to a plurality of mobile terminals including a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal, a signaling message providing each mobile terminal an opportunity to individually change network connection behavior without network-initiated resection of network access requests, the first and second mobile terminals each having network access requests for a user-initiated connection with the wireless access network and automatically initiated network access requests for one or more background applications; receiving the signaling message by the first and second mobile terminals; responsive to receiving the signaling message, each of the first and second mobile terminals individually implementing terminal-managed access prioritization that determines a network connection behavior for their respective network access requests by taking effect on traffic load into account before transmitting network access requests to avoid negative user experiences for the user-initiated connections of the plurality of mobile terminals as a collective, including:
the first mobile terminal individually determining to change its network connection behavior by reducing the transmission of network access requests for the one or more background applications relative to before receiving the signaling message; andthe second mobile terminal individually determining to transmit network access requests for the user-initiated connection and the one or more background applications under an unchanged network connection behavior relative to before receiving the signaling message; and receiving and accepting, by the wireless access network, the network access requests of the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal.