METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE WIRELESS ACCESS GATEWAY SELECTION

摘要

A wireless access gateway (70) obtains (11) substantially current information regarding its own performance capacity. That information is communicated to a network element (90). In a preferred approach, the wireless access gateway integrally combines (12) the substantially current information with at least one call management message to provide a composite message, which composite message is then transmitted (14). The network element then preferably automatically makes determinations (82) regarding selection of a particular wireless access gateway to support a given call as a function, at least in part, of the substantially current information regarding wireless access gateway performance capacity.