Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Gordon S Milliken

Keith Stanley

James P Knauft

Barrett Denton Milliken

Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee

Methods and systems for improving paging efficiency of a user equipment method including obtaining a history of the user equipment, the history including one or more past locations of the user equipment, obtaining a mobility pattern of the user equipment, the mobility pattern including one or more of a plurality of mobility categories, determining a confidence level for an associated location of the user equipment based on at least one of the mobility pattern and the history, the confidence level indicating a level of confidence that the user equipment is at the associated location, and deriving a paging range based on the confidence level, the paging range including one of a plurality of paging scopes, each of the plurality of paging scopes including at least one of a geographic or location extent, a paging frequency, a single node, a plurality of nodes, a tracking area and a plurality of tracking areas.

Adaptive paging using user equipment localization method in a network

Various methods and devices are provided to address the need to mitigate the effects of an overload and/or prevent an overload from cascading. In one method, devices are paged () according to a first paging policy regarding paging attempts. It is then determined () that a reduced availability condition exists for network equipment supporting the first paging policy. While this reduced availability condition exists, user equipment is paged () according to an adapted paging policy which is more limited in paging attempts than the first paging policy.

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Gordon S Milliken