Paging strategy based on paging success rate and paging-channel occupancy
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- at a switch in a radio access network, making a determination that a particular wireless communication device (WCD) should be paged;
responsive to the determination that the particular WCD should be paged, selecting one or more coverage areas for an initial page attempt to the particular WCD, wherein selecting the one or more coverage areas comprises;
(i) determining a subset of the coverage areas from a recent-response list that includes coverage areas via which a page response message was recently received from the particular WCD, wherein each coverage area in the subset has a respective paging success rate that is greater than a threshold rate; and
(ii) for each coverage area in the subset;
(a) determining whether a respective paging-channel occupancy of the coverage area is greater than a threshold occupancy and (b) removing the coverage area from the subset if the paging-channel occupancy of the coverage area is greater than the threshold occupancy; and
after removing any coverage areas having greater than the threshold occupancy, initiating the initial page attempt to the particular WCD in the subset of coverage areas.
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Abstract
Exemplary methods and systems may help to more intelligently provide adaptive paging. An exemplary method involves: (i) making a determination that a wireless communication device (WCD) should be paged, (ii) in response, selecting one or more coverage areas for an initial page attempt to the WCD, wherein the selected coverage areas are selected from recent-response list that indicates coverage areas via which a page response message was recently received from the WCD, and wherein selecting the coverage areas comprises, for each coverage area from the recent-response list, using both (a) a paging success rate for the coverage area and (b) a paging-channel occupancy of the coverage area as a basis for determining whether or not to select the coverage area for the initial page attempt, and (iii) initiating the initial page attempt to the WCD in the one or more selected coverage areas.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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at a switch in a radio access network, making a determination that a particular wireless communication device (WCD) should be paged; responsive to the determination that the particular WCD should be paged, selecting one or more coverage areas for an initial page attempt to the particular WCD, wherein selecting the one or more coverage areas comprises; (i) determining a subset of the coverage areas from a recent-response list that includes coverage areas via which a page response message was recently received from the particular WCD, wherein each coverage area in the subset has a respective paging success rate that is greater than a threshold rate; and (ii) for each coverage area in the subset;
(a) determining whether a respective paging-channel occupancy of the coverage area is greater than a threshold occupancy and (b) removing the coverage area from the subset if the paging-channel occupancy of the coverage area is greater than the threshold occupancy; andafter removing any coverage areas having greater than the threshold occupancy, initiating the initial page attempt to the particular WCD in the subset of coverage areas. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method comprising:
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at a radio access network component, making a determination that a particular wireless communication device (WCD) should be paged; in response to the determination that the particular WCD should be paged, selecting one or more coverage areas for an initial page attempt to the particular WCD, wherein the one or more selected coverage areas are selected from a recent-response list that indicates coverage areas via which a page response message was recently received from the particular WCD, and wherein selecting the one or more coverage areas comprises; for each of one or more coverage areas from the recent-response list, using both (a) a paging success rate for the coverage area and (b) a paging-channel occupancy of the coverage area as a basis for determining whether or not to select the coverage area for the initial page attempt; and initiating the initial page attempt to the particular WCD in the one or more selected coverage areas. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system comprising:
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a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor to; make a determination that a particular wireless communication device (WCD) should be paged; in response to the determination that the particular WCD should be paged, select one or more coverage areas for an initial page attempt to the particular WCD, wherein the one or more selected coverage areas are selected from a recent-response list that indicates coverage areas via which a page response message was recently received from the particular WCD, and wherein selecting the one or more coverage areas comprises, for each of one or more coverage areas from the recent-response list, using both (a) a paging success rate for the coverage area and (b) a paging-channel occupancy of the coverage area as a basis to determine whether or not to select the coverage area for the initial page attempt; and initiate the initial page attempt to the particular WCD in the one or more selected coverage areas. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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