Patent ID: 7769389
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. In a wireless communication system in which a base station uses a radio frequency bandwidth to send voice or data traffic to active mobile stations in a coverage area served by the base station, a method comprising: dynamically allocating the radio frequency bandwidth among a first group of active mobile stations in the coverage area according to a first bandwidth allocation algorithm; dynamically allocating the radio frequency bandwidth among a second group of active mobile stations in the coverage area according to a second bandwidth allocation algorithm; determining that the first group of active mobile stations has met a first threshold number of active mobile stations and responsively changing the first bandwidth allocation algorithm, so as to change how the radio frequency bandwidth is dynamically allocated among the first group of active mobile stations; and determining that the second group of active mobile stations has met a second threshold number of active mobile stations and responsively changing the second bandwidth allocation algorithm, so as to change how the radio frequency bandwidth is dynamically allocated among the second group of active mobile stations.