A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING PHYSICAL RESOURCES TO A SUMMARIZED RESOURCE

摘要

Aspects of the invention relate to a method (160) of adapting an association of physical resources in a network with a summarized resource (24) corresponding to one or more class of service. The method comprises monitoring at least one parameter of the summarized resources. The method further comprises comparing (164) the at least one parameter between a plurality of summarized resources, and comparing (164) the class of service of the summarized resources. Based on the comparing of the at least one parameter and based on the comparing of the class of service of the summarized resources, the method comprises determining (165) one or more summarized resources to be a source for providing physical resources and determining one or more summarized resources to be a destination for receiving physical resources. Based on the determining, the method comprises modifying (166) an allocation of physical resources to transfer an association of physical resources from the source summarized resource to the destination summarized resource.