Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth for a network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10263897-B2
Application number	US-201815888911-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 5, 2018
Priority date	Dec 29, 2006
Publication date	Apr 16, 2019
Grant date	Apr 16, 2019

Abstract

A method and apparatus for performing traffic engineering, e.g., allocating bandwidth, on a wireless access network are disclosed. For example, the method determines a number of subscriber stations (SSs) that a Base Station (BS) is capable of supporting in accordance with at least one performance objective for voice traffic, wherein the at least one performance objective for voice traffic comprises a type of codec. The method then allocates bandwidth by the base station in accordance with the number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for allocating a bandwidth for a network, the method comprising:
determining, by a base station, a number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting in accordance with a performance objective for data traffic and a performance objective for voice traffic, wherein the performance objective for data traffic comprises an average rate of traffic, wherein the performance objective for voice traffic comprises a load per voice line, wherein the determining is performed using an equivalent bandwidth model; and
allocating, by the base station, the bandwidth in accordance with the number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
monitoring an actual load for each of the subscriber stations;
monitoring an actual blocking for each of the subscriber stations;
determining whether each of the subscriber stations is conforming or non-conforming to a negotiated load level for each of the subscriber stations; and
determining whether or not each of the subscriber stations is blocked in accordance with a negotiated blocking target.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
applying a first blocking scheme to a subscriber station of the subscriber stations that is determined to be non-conforming so that the subscriber station that is determined to be non-conforming is limited to the negotiated load level for the subscriber station that is determined to be non-conforming.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
performing a second blocking scheme that redistributes a blocking rate among a plurality of active voice lines.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the voice traffic is treated with a highest priority by the base station versus the data traffic.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the voice traffic and the data traffic use separate queues at the base station.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the network is a wireless access network.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor of a base station, cause the processor to perform operations for allocating a bandwidth for a network, the operations comprising:
determining a number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting in accordance with a performance objective for data traffic and a performance objective for voice traffic, wherein the performance objective for data traffic comprises an average rate of traffic, wherein the performance objective for voice traffic comprises a load per voice line, wherein the determining is performed using an equivalent bandwidth model; and
allocating the bandwidth in accordance with the number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
monitoring an actual load for each of the subscriber stations;
monitoring an actual blocking for each of the subscriber stations;
determining whether each of the subscriber stations is conforming or non-conforming to a negotiated load level for each of the subscriber stations; and
determining whether or not each of the subscriber stations is blocked in accordance with a negotiated blocking target.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
applying a first blocking scheme to a subscriber station of the subscriber stations that is determined to be non-conforming so that the subscriber station that is determined to be non-conforming is limited to the negotiated load level for the subscriber station that is determined to be non-conforming.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , the operations further comprising:
performing a second blocking scheme that redistributes a blocking rate among a plurality of active voice lines.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the voice traffic is treated with a highest priority by the base station versus the data traffic.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the voice traffic and the data traffic use separate queues at the base station.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the network is a wireless access network.

15. An apparatus for allocating a bandwidth for a network, the apparatus comprising:
a processor of a base station; and
a computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
determining a number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting in accordance with a performance objective for data traffic and a performance objective for voice traffic, wherein the performance objective for data traffic comprises an average rate of traffic, wherein the performance objective for voice traffic comprises a load per voice line, wherein the determining is performed using an equivalent bandwidth model; and
allocating the bandwidth in accordance with the number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , the operations further comprising:
monitoring an actual load for each of the subscriber stations;
monitoring an actual blocking for each of the subscriber stations;
determining whether each of the subscriber stations is conforming or non-conforming to a negotiated load level for each of the subscriber stations; and
determining whether or not each of the subscriber stations is blocked in accordance with a negotiated blocking target.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , the operations further comprising:
applying a first blocking scheme to a subscriber station of the subscriber stations that is determined to be non-conforming so that the subscriber station that is determined to be non-conforming is limited to the negotiated load level for the subscriber station that is determined to be non-conforming.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , the operations further comprising:
performing a second blocking scheme that redistributes a blocking rate among a plurality of active voice lines.

19. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the voice traffic is treated with a highest priority by the base station versus the data traffic.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the voice traffic and the data traffic use separate queues at the base station.

Assignees

• At & T Ip Ii Lp

Inventors

• Hoeflin David
• Levy Yonatan
• Mang Xiaowen

Classifications

• H04W72/52

  based on load · CPC title

• H04W72/54

  based on quality criteria · CPC title

• H04W72/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W28/20 Primary

  Negotiating bandwidth · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title