METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWER SAVING OPERATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORK ELEMENTS

摘要

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises determining at a base station an activity level, and selecting an availability mode based at least in part on the activity level, wherein the availability mode is one of a full-availability mode, a semi-availability mode and a minimum-availability mode. The method also comprises configuring radio resources for at least the minimum- availability mode and switching to the selected availability mode.