Patent ID: 7782899

Claim:
A method of managing a transmission resource for transmitting data from a number of applications in a multiple carrier communication system, comprising: determining, by a network element, a global load indicator, the global load indicator based on a load indicator of each of multiple carriers; determining an aggregate transmission resource available to the number of applications based on the global load indicator; distributing portions of the determined aggregate transmission resource to the carriers based on a load on each carrier; assigning data from at least one of the applications to at least one of the carriers based on the portion of the determined aggregate transmission resource distributed to the at least one carrier; and transmitting the assigned data on the at least one carrier based on a contribution from each of the at least one application, the contribution being a minimum value between (i) a stored value corresponding to the at least one application, and (ii) a value resulting from a contribution function based on a determined potential transmission resource for the at least one application on the carrier and a sum of the determined potential transmission resources for the at least one application for each carrier.