PREVENTION OF SIGNALING TRAFFIC OVERLOAD WITHIN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A system and method is provided whereby signaling traffic over a reverse control channel (90) is estimated and one or more selected types of registration messaging, such as power up registrations, power down registrations, roaming registrations or periodic registrations, are disabled in response to the estimated signaling traffic exceeding a first threshold. The one or more selected types of registration messaging may be subsequently enabled after a certain amount of time has expired or in response to the estimated signaling traffic over the reverse control channel (90) falling below a second threshold. The process of disabling and enabling the selected types of registration messaging may be repeated in cycles until the signaling traffic over the reverse control channel (90) reaches an acceptable level.