Patent ID: 6501737
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method to determine a quantity of channel resources to reserve for data services in a communication system that supports both data services and voice services, the method comprising:determining, based on a data traffic profile, a minimum number of channel resources necessary to provide data services, to produce a minimum quantity of data channel resources; determining, based on a voice traffic profile, a minimum number of channel resources necessary to provide voice services that meet a required quality of voice service profile, to produce a minimum quantity of voice channel resources; determining a total number of channel resources available for voice services and data services in the communication system based on both the minimum quantity of data channel resources and the minimum quantity of voice channel resources; determining a data channel availability profile that indicates a predicted availability of the minimum quantity of data channel resources based on the voice traffic profile and total number of channel resources; determining whether the data channel availability profile is acceptable based on a required data channel availability profile; when the data channel availability profile is acceptable based on the required data channel availability profile, setting a reserved data channel quantity to zero; and when the data channel availability profile is not acceptable based on the data channel availability profile, setting the reserved data channel quantity to a minimum number of data channel resources.