Patent ID: 8175000

Claim:
A method for controlling a forward load in a sector, comprising: acquiring an amount of best-effort (BE) service data transferred respectively by each BE service user in the sector in a predetermined period of time; acquiring time used respectively by each BE service user for transferring BE service data respectively in the predetermined period of time; calculating a user equivalent rate of the BE service in the sector for the forward load according to the acquired time and the amount of BE service data; and exercising access control over a new BE service user requesting to access the sector according to the user equivalent rate, wherein the access control is further exercised according to a preset access condition that comprises: if the user equivalent rate in a certain period of time is lower than a rate access threshold but higher than a rate limit threshold, and a number of BE service users in the sector is larger than a maximum number of users in the sector, the new BE service user whose wireless environment measurement value is greater than a preset wireless environment access threshold is allowed to access; and if the user equivalent rate in a certain period of time is lower than the rate limit threshold but higher than a rate control threshold, and the number of the BE service users in the sector is larger than the maximum number of users in the sector, the new BE service user is denied access, wherein the rate access threshold is higher than the rate limit threshold, and the rate limit threshold is higher than the rate control threshold.