Patent ID: 7471629

Claim:
A method for admission control in a network adapted to serve a set of stations and manage real time transmission as well as TCP/IP sessions, comprising: classifying, autonomously at an access point, new traffic flow associated with a new station and determining at the access point whether sufficient bandwidth is available when the new station joins the network, for the new traffic flow associated with said new station without interfering with any ongoing real time transmission in the network; blocking said new traffic flow associated with the new station when sufficient bandwidth is not available; classifying, autonomously at the access point, new traffic flow associated with a new TCP/IP session and determining at the access point whether sufficient bandwidth is available when the new TCP/IP session is being initiated for the new traffic flow associated with the new TCP/IP session without interfering with any ongoing real time transmission in the network; and blocking said new traffic flow associated the new TCP/IP session when sufficient bandwidth is not available, wherein determining whether sufficient bandwidth is available comprises determining an available bandwidth on the network as a function of a real time flow bit rate, relative positions of the access point to the network and other stations in the set of stations and a presence of other interfering equipment in a same ISM band.