Patent ID: 8670385

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a device and from a plurality of base stations associated with a radio access network (RAN), traffic information that identifies traffic load conditions associated with the RAN; identifying, by the device and from the traffic information, a respective quantity of bandwidth, associated with a one or more frequency allocations, that is used, by a base station of the plurality of base stations, to provision each of one or more services to user devices being served by the base station; allocating, by the device, another respective quantity of bandwidth, associated with one or more other frequency allocations, to each of the one or more services based on the identification of the respective quantity of bandwidth that is used to provision each of the one or more services; and transmitting, by the device and to a user device, allocation information that identifies the manner that the other respective quantity of bandwidth, associated with the one more other frequency allocations, is allocated to each of the one or more services, where transmitting the allocation information allows the user device to identify via which frequency allocation, of the one or more other frequency allocations, to access a service of the one or more services.