PRIORITY-BASED ADMISSION CONTROL IN A NETWORK WITH VARIABLE CHANNEL DATA RATES

摘要

A method for priority-based admission control in a network, comprises receiving an admission request for transmitting an information flow to a network through a communication channel and determining an admissible region within a range of a channel data rate of a communication channel for an information flow in response to a priority of the information flow. The admissible region is one of a plurality of admissible regions within the channel data rate range that correspond to different ones of a plurality of priorities of information flow, respectively, and each of the plurality of admissible regions within the channel data rate range is useable for transmitting information flow with a respective one of the plurality of priorities.