Patent ID: 8345595

Claim:
A method of operating a communication system, comprising: in a wireless access node, receiving communication packets from wireless devices communicating in sectors over wireless links, determining wireless device identifiers of the wireless devices, sector identifiers of the sectors, and associations between the communication packets, the wireless device identifiers, and the sector identifiers, and transferring the communication packets, the wireless device identifiers, the sector identifiers, and the associations; in a packet processing system, receiving the communication packets, the wireless device identifiers, the sector identifiers, and the associations between the communication packets, the wireless device identifiers, and the sector identifiers, determining application types of the communication packets based on at least the communication packets, determining sector activity profiles for the sectors that relate the application types present in each of the sectors as a portion of total communication packets for each sector, determining quality-of-service policies based on the sector activity profiles to adjust a quality-of-service provided to at least one of the applications in at least one of the sectors, and transferring the quality-of-service policies; in the wireless access node, receiving the quality-of-service policies and enforcing a level of service to the wireless devices over the wireless links based on the quality-of-service policies.