Patent ID: 8595374

Claim:
A method for calculating a capacity for high speed packet access data in a link in a communications network, comprising: initializing, by a processor, parameters associated with streaming data, long elastic data and short elastic data; determining, by the processor, a capacity value where a quality of service metric is met for the streaming data, the long elastic data and the short elastic data, wherein the determining comprises: determining an ordering of priority for the streaming data, the long elastic data and the short elastic data; calculating a sub-par customer time fraction for the streaming data, a long elastic sub-par customer data fraction and a short elastic sub-par customer data fraction based upon the ordering of priority; and determining if the sub-par customer time fraction is greater than or equal to a target sub-par customer time fraction, if the long elastic sub-par customer data fraction is greater than or equal to a target long elastic sub-par customer data fraction, and if the short elastic sub-par customer data fraction is greater than or equal to a target short elastic sub-par customer data fraction; and provisioning, by the processor, the link with the capacity value if the quality of service metric is met.