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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2012
Erik Colban, San Diego, CA (US);
George Calcev, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Bin Chen, Schaumburg, IL (US);
George Cummings, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Erik Colban, San Diego, CA (US);
George Calcev, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Bin Chen, Schaumburg, IL (US);
George Cummings, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for reporting a power outage to a communications controller includes detecting the power outage, and selecting a transmission slot from a plurality of transmission slots in order to report the power outage to the communications controller, the transmission slot selected according to a non-uniform probability distribution function, the non-uniform probability distribution function is monotonic with time after the power outage. The method also includes transmitting a first power outage indicator to the communications controller in the transmission slot selected.