Voice and data call admission policies for a wireless communication system

• US 20040001437A1
• Filed: 06/28/2002
• Published: 01/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LGS Innovations LLC (CACI International Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Vitebsky, Stanley, Duncan, Virgil J., Estes, George Edson, Kiang, T. Roger, Thomas, Mathew
• Granted Patent: US 7,283,550 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/232
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/26 Resource reservation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/535 based on resource usage policies

Abstract

A method of applying one of several resource distribution algorithms to an incoming call to a communication system. The applied resource distribution algorithm is based on resource parameters obtained from a main scheduler of the communication system. Some of the resource parameters include the type of call, the resource usage and the resource allocation scheme. The resource parameters generally describe the amount of resources that are currently being used by the system and which resources are available to the incoming call. The method of the present invention admits the incoming call to the communication system in accordance with one of the resource distribution allocation schemes. In this manner, the resources of the communication system can be efficiently and fairly distributed to different types of users requesting admission to the communication system.

Claims

1. A method for admitting an incoming call to a communication system, the method comprising the step of:

obtaining resource parameters from system equipment and applying one of N resource distribution algorithms to the incoming call based on resource parameter values where N is an integer equal to 1 or greater.

2. The method of claim 1 where the obtained resource parameters are (1) type of incoming call, (2) resource usage and (3) resource allocation scheme.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of updating the resource usage parameter when there are no incoming calls.

4. The method of claim 2 where the resource allocation scheme comprise boundaries that divide the communication system'"'"'s resource space into a certain number of regions and apportioning specific resources for the regions.

5. The method of claim 1 where the N resource distribution algorithms comprise (1) FCFS, (2) Voice over Data and (3) High Speed Data over Voice.

6. The method of claim 5 where the distribution algorithm Voice over Data is replaced by a Data over Voice distribution algorithm.

7. The method of claim 1 where the resource parameters are obtained from a main scheduler of the communication system.

8. The method of claim 1 where more than one resource distribution algorithm is applied to the incoming call.