A base station transmits a signal transmission to a mobile broadband (MBB) user equipment (UE) device and to a machine type communication (MTC) device that is in close proximity to the MBB UE device where the signal transmission includes control channel and a data channel. The control channel includes common location dependent control information that applies to the MTC device and the MBB UE device because they are at the same location.

A recovery network may provide communication recovery and backup services to an organization. The organization may comprise an internal network, such as Internet Protocol (IP) network. An alternative communication path communicatively couples communication devices of the organization to a public communication network. A recovery application operates on devices of the organization. The recovery network receives periodic availability indicators from devices within the organization. The recovery network identifies a communication endpoint of the intended recipient of a communication request using the availability indicators.

A base station transmits a signal transmission to a mobile broadband (MBB) user equipment (UE) device and to a machine type communication (MTC) device that is in close proximity to the MBB UE device where the signal transmission includes control channel and a data channel. The control channel includes common location dependent control information that applies to the MTC device and the MBB UE device because they are at the same location.

Recovery from failure of a working path for communications traffic in a connection-oriented network, where the working path has a preplanned recovery path, involves initiating recovery by requesting computation of a new recovery path for the communications traffic to avoid the failure. If the recovery is not successful within a time limit, recovery is carried out using the preplanned recovery path. Determining if the recovery is not successful and initiating the recovery using the preplanned recovery path can be controlled by an ingress node of the working path. By trying to compute a new recovery path first, network resources can be used more efficiently, as the new recovery path is likely to reuse most of the working path, since it is computed knowing the location of the fault.