Patent ID: 9191974
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04L,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of providing session admission control for a new session in a broadband wireless network, the method comprising: obtaining, by one or more hardware processors, a guaranteed bit rate, a priority level, and a quality of service class indicator for the new session; calculating an available capacity by utilizing the guaranteed bit rate; determining, by the one or more hardware processors, whether the available capacity is a negative or a positive value; in response to the available capacity being a negative value, searching through existing sessions for a first plurality of existing sessions having same quality of service class indicator as the new session and priority level lower than the priority level for the new session; in response to finding the first plurality of existing sessions, filtering the first plurality of existing sessions to obtain a second existing session, the filtering comprises: preempting, by the one or more hardware processors, the second existing session; and admitting, by the one or more hardware processors, the new session in response to the preempting.