Keep NSTimer running even application goes in background in ios

I want to perform particular task in background continuously even my application goes in background.

Here is the code which i tried. Timer is firing only once when it enters in background.

- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application
    {
      NSTimer * timer = [NSTimer timerWithTimeInterval:2.0
                                    target:self
                                  selector:@selector(timerTicked)
                                  userInfo:nil
                                   repeats:YES];
            [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] addTimer:timer
                                      forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
    }

- (void) timerTicked 
{
    NSLog(@"Timer method");
}