Patent ID: 7106704

Claim:
A method for controlling transmission resources of a radio access network adapted to transmit data packets in real-time traffic and in non-real time traffic, wherein the transmission resources are controlled on an interface between a radio network controller and at least one radio transceiver device of said radio access network being controlled by said radio network controller, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining information in the radio network controller, related to transmission resources of the radio transceiver devices, said information indicating the transmission resources required for handling real time traffic in the radio transceiver device; reserving transmission resources for handling non-real time traffic dynamically based on a knowledge of overall available transmission resources of a respective radio transceiver device of said radio access network and the information related to the transmission resources required for handling real time traffic by said respective radio transceiver, wherein the respectively reserved transmission resources are distinguished on the basis of ATM virtual path identifiers and virtual channel identifiers, wherein the reserving step preselects the transmission resources for the respective radio transceiver device; and transmitting prevailing traffic based on an identity of the traffic to be handled by selectively addressing the ATM virtual path identifiers and virtual channel identifiers for the real time/non-real time traffic to be handled.