Patent ID: 9668264
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a transport network node for distributing an available bandwidth between different access technologies, the transport network node being located in a transport network and communicatively coupled with a plurality of network nodes using different access technologies to each serve one or more users, the transport network node further being communicatively coupled with a core network, the method comprising: obtaining an allocation scheme reflecting a desired distribution of bandwidth between the different access technologies; receiving, from each of the plurality of network nodes, an information comprising an access technology used by the network node and further comprising an active number of users being served by the network node using that access technology; receiving, from each of the plurality of network nodes, information regarding a number of sessions per active user; and scheduling a transport of data packets received from the plurality of network nodes by the transport network node to the core network based on the received access technologies, the received active numbers of users, the received information from each network node regarding the number of sessions per active user, and the obtained allocation scheme, wherein the scheduling comprises: