Patent ID: 8755344

Claim:
A method for admitting a request for allocation of wireless connection resources, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, via an interface, a request for a bearer reservation for an allocation of an amount of wireless connection resources, wherein the request comprises a bit rate; determining a wireless connection efficiency of the requested bearer reservation; determining a wireless connection efficiency of existing bearer reservations, wherein each existing bearer reservation is associated with a bit rate and an amount of wireless connection resources; comparing the wireless connection efficiency of the requested bearer reservation to the wireless connection efficiency of existing bearer reservations to determine a set of existing bearer reservations which make less efficient use of wireless connection resources than the requested bearer reservation; determining, based on a policy, a subset of the existing bearer reservations to be preempted that make less efficient use of wireless connection resources than the requested bearer reservation; preempting the subset of existing bearer reservations with less efficient use of the wireless connection resources than the bearer request; admitting the requested bearer reservation; wherein wireless connection efficiency is a function of a bit rate and an amount of wireless connection resources; wherein the policy comprises preempting an existing bearer reservation if ⁢ ⁢ ( ( ( requestedBitRate requestedResources ) * efficiencyGain ) > ( existingBitRate existingResources ) ) , wherein: requestedBitRate comprises the bit rate within the request for the bearer reservation; requestedResources comprises an amount of wireless connection resources required to sustain requestedBitRate; efficiencyGain comprises a required spectral efficiency gain before an existing bearer reservation is subject to preemption; existingBitRate comprises the bit rate associated with an existing bearer reservation; and existingResources comprises an amount of wireless connection resources required to sustain existingBitRate.