Patent ID: 8855006

Claim:
A method for mesh-wide capacity management in a mesh network comprising mesh links of different link technologies or with different link configurations, the method comprising: signaling from at least one link resource manager implemented by at least one processor associated with a mesh link or a group of mesh links of the mesh network, information indicative for a link- or link group-specific calculation model which is specific for a link technology or a link configuration of the mesh link or the group of mesh links associated with the link resource manager to at least one processor-implemented network capacity manager, the information allowing the at least one network capacity manager to apply the link- or link group-specific calculation model to calculate at least one flow performance measure for establishing at least one packet-based traffic flow on the mesh link or on the group of mesh links; wherein the step of signaling information indicative for the link- or link group-specific calculation model comprises signaling an index indexing one out of a set of pre-defined calculation models known to the network capacity manager.