Communication network for communicating, storing or deleting data packets depending upon the type of data packet i.e. machine-to-machine data packets

摘要

The infrastructure equipment is arrange in operation to receive an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer for supporting a communications session of a mobile communications device, the indication of the type of the data packets being used to configure the communications bearer, to provide the communications bearer from the mobile communications device in accordance with the indication of the type of the data packets, and to control the communication of the data packets via the communications bearer in accordance with the type of data packets being communicated via the communications bearer. By providing an indication of the relative type of the data packets, such as an indication that the data packets are of low priority or are generated or being received by a machine type communication application, the mobile communications network can control the communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority. In one example the mobile communications network buffers data packets from a low priority and/or machine type communication application but not data packets of a higher priority, when the mobile communications network is experiencing congestion.