Patent ID: 8433329

Claim:
A method for optimizing use of available channels of a wireless network comprising the steps of: determining a grade of service in handling a plurality of calls at a cell sector of a given coverage area; establishing a fraction of expected handoff calls, from a total calling rate in said cell sector; establishing an expected portion of priority access of said total calling rate, wherein said expected portion is greater than said fraction of expected Handoff calls; establishing a total number of channels to service a mobile terminal covered by said cell sector; establishing a number of channels to be exclusively dedicated to handling voice call transfer requests from said mobile terminal in a high traffic condition; establishing a number of channels to be exclusively dedicated to handling voice calls with an access privilege to said mobile terminal covered by said cell sector in said high traffic condition; determining a plurality of grade of service performance lookup tables; selecting at least one performance lookup table that establishes a plurality of blocking probabilities for said grade of service and values of said fraction of expected handoff calls and portion of priority access; selecting a number of channels from which a set of non-handover calls is to be blocked, starting from the desired grade of service performance; and selecting a number of channels from which a call without access privileges is to be blocked, based on said plurality of blocking probabilities.