Patent ID: 7305240

Claim:
A software architecture for a broadband wireless access (BWA) network, comprising: a network management system (NMS), including a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) manager; a plurality of proxy SNMP agents, each proxy SNMP agent implemented at a respective base station (BS) in the BWA network, each SNMP proxy agent enabled to communicate with the SNMP manager via SNMP messages encapsulating Management Information Base (MIB) objects and enabled to communicate with a mobile subscriber station (MSS) via a management channel, an SNMP proxy agent further enabled to extract MIB objects encapsulated in SNMP messages received from the SNMP manager and to generate and send messages to an MSS via the management channel containing parameters corresponding to the MIB objects that are extracted; and a service database, to store service flow and associated quality of service information pertaining to the MSS, wherein the SNMP manager generates the MIB objects in response to the service flow and associated quality of service information to reserve a network resource included in the MSS.