Patent ID: 8040803
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing packet-data service to mobile stations, wherein providing the packet-data service to the mobile stations comprises (a) providing wireless service over an air interface from a base station to one or more mobile stations in a wireless coverage area and (b) providing a packet data transport service from the base station to a packet-data network; maintaining in data storage one or more packet-transport-metric thresholds; measuring each packet-transport metric in a set of one or more packet-transport metrics associated with the packet data transport service from the base station to the packet-data network; and conducting call-admission control in the wireless coverage area based at least in part on the one or more measured packet-transport metrics of the packet data transport service, wherein conducting the call-admission control comprises receiving a service request from a mobile station that is not currently receiving service in the wireless coverage area, and responsively: