APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELAYED RESPONSE HANDLING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION CONGESTION CONTROL

摘要

With congestion control applied, an access request from a lower priority device, e.g., a machine type communication (MTC) device, may be rejected by a communication network, with the exception of network initiated communication sessions. For example, if a server in the network decides to obtain information from a device, the network could page the device and allow the communication. However, for certain devices, especially MTC devices, the generation of the response to the server can take a long time. This may result in the response being considered an independent communication session initiated by the device, and thus rejected. The device may voluntarily disconnect in exchange for a priority raise for a next access request. The network could verify and grant the access when the device comes back with a request for the response transmission.