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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
David Hoeflin, Middletown, NJ (US);
Yonatan Levy, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Xiaowen Mang, Morganville, NJ (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
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.