| 摘要 |
<p>A first threshold for data volume and/or a second threshold for data periodicity are provided to a user equipment UE 20. The UE 20 selects at least one bit value to indicate at least one of a) volume of uplink data to be sent by the UE relative to the first threshold and b) periodicity of uplink data to be sent by the UE relative to the second threshold. The UE 20 signals the bit value(s) to the radio network 22, 26, for example in RRC connection establishment, connection re-establishment or reconfiguration signalling, or in non-access stratum signalling. The bit values may also indicate priority of the data and/or the UE's preferred DRX configuration. In this way the network 22, 26 has enough information about the data to determine if it is, for example, MTC-type frequent small data, and if so, to arrange for the UE to send the uplink data using optimised procedures.</p> |
