Patent ID: 9306853
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: measuring a first packet loss rate of a first flow of quality-of-service (QoS) packets over a backhaul transport network between a first base transceiver station and a radio network controller; measuring a second packet loss rate of a second flow of QoS packets over the backhaul transport network between a second base transceiver station and the radio network controller; selectively dropping the first flow or the second flow based on a first comparison of the first packet loss rate to a first threshold that is determined based on a first QoS requirement for the first flow and a second comparison of the second packet loss rate to a second threshold that is determined based on a second QoS requirement for the second flow, receiving a request to drop at least one of the first or second flow; rejecting the requested drop of the at least one of the first flow or the second flow; and causing, in response to the first packet loss rate or the second packet loss rate exceeding a corresponding threshold in a next packet window, the at least one of the first flow or the second flow to request dropping of the at least one of the first flow or the second flow after a previously requested drop was rejected.