Patent ID: 8411629

Claim:
A method comprising: at a wireless network access point device configured to operate in a wireless network for which video traffic is to be evaluated for admission and that is configured to serve wireless client devices operating on the wireless channel in the wireless network, obtaining measurement data pertaining to existing activity on a wireless channel in the wireless network; receiving, at the wireless network access point device, a request for new video traffic to the wireless channel in the wireless network; receiving, at the wireless network access point device, a request to serve the new video traffic with a wireless client device operating on the wireless channel in the wireless network; estimating, at the wireless network access point device, characteristics of the new video traffic; computing, at the wireless network access point device, a video admission metric based on the characteristics estimated for the video packets of the new video traffic and the measurement data; and determining, at the wireless network access point device, whether to admit the new video traffic to the wireless channel in the wireless network based on the video admission metric.