Patent ID: 7693526
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: monitoring utilization of an access medium relative to one or more access classes; receiving, at an access control point, a Quality of Service (QoS) request, wherein the QoS request identifies an access class; computing a first allocation of an access medium for the QoS request; estimating a queue utilization for the QoS request based on the current queue utilization of the access class identified in the QoS request; and approving the QoS request, if the computed first allocation is less than an amount of the access medium available to the access class identified in the QoS request; wherein approval of the QoS request is further conditioned on the estimated queue utilization not exceeding a queue utilization threshold; and wherein estimating comprises the queue utilization calculating whether: wherein: