摘要 |
<p>A central controller (40) operating as a pager terminal for receiving, handling, and transmitting messages is shown that adaptively alters its message handling characteristics in order to improve the overall throughput of the central controller. The channel loading characteristics, based upon the time of day, are used in order to vary the limitation of the size of message received by the central controller (40) as well as vary the transmission size and age of messages prior to transmission. Additionally, channel loading may be determined by determining the total size of messages within the central controller (40). In response to the total size determination, the limitation of the message size received by the controller (40) may be varied. Furthermore, the transmission size and age of messages prior to transmission may be varied in response to the total size determination. The central controller (40) may also adopt these operations in response to the combination of the total size determination and channel loading based upon the time of day characteristics.</p> |