Patent ID: 7970011
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: H04L,H04N,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users by conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands comprising: receiving, by a device, a request for a service flow from a communication device; comparing the demands of the request to anticipated resources of a channel; determining whether the request is to be granted or whether the request is to be modified; granting or modifying the request by modifying the service flow of one or more communication devices to allow connectivity; and conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments by forecasting schedule transmission opportunities on one or more channels of the shared medium wherein conducting lookahead scheduling comprises assigning a forecasting function to a user based on whether or not a cycle has been detected via an autocorrelation function and an identifier function, and wherein the autocorrelation function identifies elements in a time series which are influential on a current observation of that same series and the identifier function identifies possible cycles of the time series by identifying local maxima output by the autocorrelation function.