Patent ID: 7672308

Claim:
A method performed in a node of a network, the method comprising: negotiating, at a quality controller at the node, at least one of a quality of service parameter values for one or more data connections; monitoring, by the quality controller, an experienced quality of service for one or more data connections; assigning, by an admission controller at the node, at least one safety margin parameter for at least one data connection, the at least one safety margin referring to excess capacity in the shared radio resources; detecting, by the quality controller, a degradation situation in the quality of service of one or more data connections; indicating, by the quality controller to the admission controller, the degradation situation in the quality of service of one or more data connections to an admission control; and based on the degradation situation in the quality of service, adjusting, by the admission controller, an admission control policy of new data connections using the shared radio resources, wherein the node comprises at least one of a base station, a base station controller, a base transceiver station, and a radio network controller, wherein the shared radio resources are shared among at least two of the base station, the base station controller, the base transceiver station, and the radio network controller.