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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2009
Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Herndon, VA (US);
Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas, Herndon, VA (US);
Anoop K. Goyal, Overland Park, KS (US);
Bhagwan Khanka, Lenexa, KS (US);
Duane A. Tomka, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Herndon, VA (US);
Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas, Herndon, VA (US);
Anoop K. Goyal, Overland Park, KS (US);
Bhagwan Khanka, Lenexa, KS (US);
Duane A. Tomka, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for using packet-transport metrics for call-admission control. In an embodiment, a base station provides packet-data service to mobile stations, which comprises (a) providing wireless service over an air interface in a wireless coverage area and (b) providing transport service over a packet-data network. The base station measures, over at least the packet-data network, each packet-transport metric in a set of one or more packet-transport metrics. The base station conducts call-admission control in the wireless coverage area based at least in part on the one or more measured packet-transport metrics.