Patent ID: 8755270

Claim:
A radio access network comprising: a radio network controller configured to perform admission control and to allocate resources of a cell; a radio base station configured to evaluate a quantitative measure to determine overload/congestion on a high speed shared channel and to generate an indication of the overload/congestion for transmission of the indication to the radio network controller; wherein the radio base station is further configured to generate and transmit to the radio network controller a congestion report including a reason for congestion; and wherein the congestion reason includes at least one of (1) power and/or noise rise for a non-shared dedicated channel, (2) a code deficiency for the high speed shared channel and (3) a hardware problem; wherein the radio network controller is configured to allocate at least some of the resources for the channel to support a guaranteed service and to allocate at least some resources to support a non-guaranteed service, and wherein the radio base station is configured to measure and to report the downlink power utilized on the downlink channel by the uplink control channels of the high speed shared uplink channel for a guaranteed service.