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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1997
James F. Whitehead, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A reuse management method for a packet-switched wireless network having a plurality of links between a plurality of terminal devices and at least one base station. Each link is a wireless connection in a medium between a terminal device of the plurality of terminal devices and the one base station. A request for a link in the medium for transmitting a data packet is received. Permission to transmit the data packet over the requested link is granted based on compatibility of the requested link with other links in the medium. Granting permission to transmit the data packet includes assigning a slot for transmitting the data packet over the requested link. The packet-switched wireless network is also coupled to a plurality of connections. Each connection has an associated quality of service and the packet-switched wireless network has a virtual service rate. A data packet is received from a connection of the plurality of connections, and is placed in a quality-of-service (QoS) queue based on the quality of service associated with the connection and based on the virtual service rate of the packet-switched wireless network.