Patent ID: 7450589

Claim:
A method comprising: first providing an admission control and a resource reservation for radio resources; second providing an admission control for an Abis interface by determining used resources of the Abis interface, determining needed resources for a desired throughput of a connection, and accepting the connection if an amount of needed Abis resources is smaller than a difference between available Abis resources and the used Abis resources; and utilizing results of the admission control as network design parameters for providing a resource reservation for Abis resources, wherein said second providing comprises providing the admission control by determining the needed resources for the desired throughput of a connection determined by, for the downlink direction, dividing a guaranteed bit-rate by the desired throughput depending upon a used modulation and coding scheme and multiplying a respective result with a number of slaves depending upon the used modulation and coding scheme; and for the uplink direction, dividing the guaranteed bit-rate by a product of the desired throughput depending upon the used modulation and the coding scheme and a difference to a block error rate and multiplying a respective result with the number of slaves depending upon the used modulation and coding scheme.