METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BYPASSING OVERLOAD CONTROL FOR EMERGENCY CALLS

摘要

A method and apparatus for enabling a network element to continue to process and respond to emergency, e.g., E911, call signaling messages despite any overload control mechanism that might be in effect due to congestions caused and experienced by other non-emergency call signaling messages are disclosed. Emergency call signaling messages are exempted from overload control, such as call gapping or signaling message queue lengthening mechanisms.