Patent ID: 8750113

Claim:
A method of load measurement for rate adaptive services in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of packets associated with a bearer; calculating a measured bit rate for the plurality of packets received; marking each of the plurality of packets received with information associated with the calculated measured hit rate, wherein the marked packets are used as input for admission control, congestion control and/or scheduling schemes for the wireless communications network; and calculating resource block usage based on a modified sum of physical resource block (PRB) consumption for rate adaptive services using the marked packets and the calculated measured bit rates therein and a guaranteed bit rate (GBR) for the bearer, wherein the modified sum of PRB consumption is calculated using the following equation: Modified G i =Σ(PRB consumption of packets j if BRj≦GBRi )( j= 1,2 . . . k ), wherein the Modified G i is a number of PRBs used for a bearer i, where BR j is the calculated marked bit rate for packet j, and GBRi is a guaranteed bit rate for the bearer i; and wherein the receiving, the calculating, the marking and the calculating are performed by at least one device in the wireless communications network.