Patent ID: 8032369

Claim:
A method for achieving an arbitrary capacity for a network, said method comprising accomplishing each of the following acts by a network configured to communicate wirelessly with a set of devices accessing the network: determining a capacity operating point for the network; setting a target rate for the set of devices, the target rate being set in accordance with the capacity operating point; selecting a composite rate from among a set of composite rates, wherein each of the set of composite rates includes a first allocation of frames to a first component rate of the selected composite rate and a second allocation of frames to a second component rate of the selected composite rate; based on the target rate and the selected composite rate, calculating a reallocation fraction; instructing at least one of the set of devices to reassign, based on the reallocation fraction, a plurality of frames of a speech signal that are assigned to the first component rate of said selected composite rate to the second component rate of said selected composite rate, wherein the second component rate is different than the first component rate, wherein said selected composite rate includes repeated instances of a sequence of different component rates, and wherein said repeated instances define said first and second allocations of said selected composite rate.