DELAY AND BACKHAUL-EFFICIENT PAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

Described herein is methodologies for efficient utilization of backhaul r esources of a network for delivering paging data to an access terminal (AT) without sacrificing delay performance. A location that buffers data for an A T can be adaptively changed based on factors such as the location of the AT, applications utilized by the AT, and a recent activity level of the AT. To facilitate this determination, an AT can be configured with one or more regi stration boundaries. An AT can be configured with a small registration radiu s such that if the AT does not move outside of the small registration radius , data can be delivered directly to a data attachment point for the AT. If t he AT moves outside of the small registration radius, the registration radiu s can be switched to a large registration radius and the access gateway can instead locally buffer data for the AT.