Patent ID: 8159952

Claim:
A method for a subscriber station to request allocated bandwidth from a base station such that the subscriber station is capable of communicating through the base station to a network using at least a portion of the allocated bandwidth, the method for the subscriber station comprising: collecting a plurality of inter-packet times for data transmitted from the subscriber station to the base station; creating an inter-packet time matrix, Δ, including the plurality of inter-packet times Δ i , where i is an integer between 1 and N; creating a probability matrix, P, including a value p i of a probability mass function for two or more Δ i ; transmitting Δ, P, and a nominal data packet size to the base station; calculating a time difference, d, equal to a difference between a current time and a time when a previous data packet was generated; if d is less than or equal to Δ N , setting an index parameter equal to an i associated with a smallest Δ i which is equal to or greater than d, otherwise setting the index parameter equal to N+1; transmitting the index parameter to the base station; and transmitting one or more packets of data between the subscriber station and the network using the allocated bandwidth, wherein the allocated bandwidth is associated with one or more of Δ, P, and the index parameter.