Patent ID: 8488527

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receive at least one parameter value, for each of one or more communication bearers, the at least one parameter value, for a communication bearer, describing a data rate probability distribution, for the same bearer, associated with time intervals with a fixed time duration; wherein the at least one parameter value comprises at least one of an average data rate value, a data rate variance value, a percentile data rate value associated with a probability value indicating a probability of the data rate value being exceeded, or the probability value, and wherein the average data rate value, the data rate variance value and the percentile data rate value are associated with time intervals with the fixed time duration; estimate an amount of radio resources to allocate to at least one communication bearer of the one or more communication bearers, based at least in part on the received parameter values and the fixed time duration; and allocate the estimated amount of radio resources to the at least one communication bearer of the one or more communication bearers.