SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION OF RADIO CHANNEL STATE AND BASE STATION CONGESTION STATE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

摘要

An example method is provided in one example embodiment and can include obtaining, within a radio access network, a channel state for a data channel associated with a mobile terminal; including the channel state in a differentiated services (diffserv) marking within an Internet Protocol (IP) header of at least one IP packet associated with the mobile terminal; and transmitting the at least one IP packet including the IP header having the diffserv marking toward a packet data network.