Patent ID: 6934555

Claim:
A method of simulating operation of a wireless communication network, the method comprising: defining a radio base station in a simulation environment; defining two or more categories of subscribers; defining a plurality of candidate subscriber units associated with said radio base station in said simulation environment, each said candidate subscriber unit associated with one of said subscriber categories; determining a total forward link power available to said base station for transmitting signals to said candidate subscriber units; performing a call admission procedure to randomly admit candidate subscriber units for service from said base station, said call admission procedure comprising, for each candidate subscriber unit; determining the unallocated total forward link power; determining the additional power requested by the candidate subscriber unit; determining the available power for a corresponding subscriber category; and admitting said candidate subscriber unit if the additional power requested by the candidate subscriber unit is within the limits of the unallocated total forward link power and the available power for the corresponding subscriber category.