Patent ID: 7286505
Filing Date: 2007-10-23
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A traffic management method to manage traffic through a wireless network element having buses and baseband units for communicating to a network, the network element being operative to process at least voice traffic, a first type of data traffic and a second type of data traffic, the method comprising steps of: generating a map having mapping elements organized in rows corresponding to the buses and columns corresponding to the baseband units; allocating a first set of mapping elements to the voice traffic; allocating a second set of mapping elements to the first type of data traffic; allocating a third set of mapping elements to the second type of data traffic; processing the voice traffic, first type of data traffic and second type of data traffic based on the allocation of the mapping elements; determining that at least one of the voice traffic, first type of data traffic and the second type of data traffic exceeds a corresponding threshold value; balancing the allocation of the first, second and third sets of mapping elements by selectively moving boundaries therebetween on the map based on the determining; and, processing the voice traffic, the first type of data traffic and the second type of data traffic based on the balancing.