Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Andrew C Clark

Mark H Kraml

Eric Henry Grosse

Xiong Yang

Philip Diguglielmo

Xiaoyu Zhou

An automatically provisioned network element () has the ability to detect a heartbeat message interval used by a remote network element () and to automatically adjust a heartbeat interval timer value that it uses for sending subsequent heartbeat messages. The adjustment is responsive to the interval used by the remote network elementthat they correspond to each other. By automatically configuring the heartbeat timer interval value so that there is correspondence between the intervals used by the end points on a link over which Cisco HDLC SLARP communications occur, for example, the chance of a link being considered to have failed is decreased. In a disclosed example, the heartbeat interval timer value is initially set to a value that is expected to be higher than that used by the remote network element and only automatic reductions in the heartbeat message interval timer value are permitted.

Technique for automatically configuring a communication network element

A wireless communication system () includes a capacity allocation module () that adjusts an allocation of an authorized total capacity among a plurality of base stations (). A disclosed example includes determining a peak capacity requirement for a plurality of base stations at any given time. An authorized capacity corresponds to the peak requirement for the plurality of base stations. The disclosed example includes adjusting an allocation of the authorized total capacity among the plurality of base stations to meet different traffic requirements at each of the base stations at different times.

Capacity allocation in a wireless communication system

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Succasunna, NJ, United States of America

Andrew C Clark