Abstract: Technology is discussed for reducing the frequency of signaling overhead and power consumption on wireless mobile devices employed to support internet applications in a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN). Demands for battery power and signaling overhead frequently arise to support background messages of little significance and/or urgency when internet applications are unattended on wireless mobile device attempting to conserve power. An identification module can be triggered to identify such background messages, based on a variety of factors. The identification module can also determine whether to buffer and/or drop such messages with information local to the wireless mobile devices and/or in such background messages. Such buffering and dropping measures can reduce the frequency with which wireless mobile devices consume large amounts of power and/or require signaling overhead to send and receive these background messages.

Abstract: A channel normally used to transmit acknowledgement of successful signal receipt and an indication of unsuccessful signal receipt is adopted to transmit power control information from a base station to a mobile station. The power control information can be encoded as a binary code where each value of the code is indicated by an acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement signal.

Abstract: Techniques are described for a device to request a new service flow for best effort (BE) category traffic to assign a priority to the new service flow. For example, a Traffic Priority parameter in a media access control (MAC) message can be used to transmit the priority level for a new BE category service flow. The MAC message can be an AAI DSA-REQ message (specified in IEEE 802.16m draft 9 (2010)). Either a base station or a mobile station can request a new service flow using the MAC message.

Abstract: A channel normally used to transmit acknowledgement of successful signal receipt and an indication of unsuccessful signal receipt is adopted to transmit power control information from a base station to a mobile station. The power control information can be encoded as a binary code where each value of the code is indicated by an acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement signal.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses enable sending a fast access request in a preamble of a random access request. The fast access request provides for an uplink assignment having bandwidth sufficient to allow the transmission of data with a scheduling request. The fast access request can indicate, for example, a traffic class of a message to be sent. Based on traffic class information, up to a certain additional amount of bandwidth can be allocated for a scheduling procedure for the requesting user device.