Patent ID: 7558201

Claim:
An admission control method comprising: receiving a scheduling decision at a measurement based load estimator for a communications resource; measuring an existing load of the communication resource based on the scheduling decision; estimating an additional load of a new user; combining the existing load measurement and the additional load estimate to determine a combined load; comparing the combined load to a system capacity; and admitting the new user if the combined load does not exceed the system capacity, the new user being admitted based on the following relationship: ∑ k = 1 K ⁢ m K ( K + 1 ) ⁢ B k ⁡ ( t ) + m i E ⁡ [ r i ⁡ ( t ) ] ≤ 1 , where K is a number of admitted users k, m k is a profile rate of an admitted user k, m i is a profile rate of the new user, E[r i (t)] is an estimated channel rate of the new user at time t, and B k (t) is an average measure of a communication resource allocated to the admitted user k at time t.