Method and system for admission control

摘要

Method for handling an access request to an information processing system (5). It is detected whether or not the system is or threatens to be overloaded. When the system is overloaded or threatens to be overloaded, the kind of system overload is detected, the kind of requested access is detected and the kind of requested access is compared with the kind of system overload. If the kind of requested access is not deemed to contribute to the system overload the requested access is judged to be admissible. If the kind of requested access is deemed to contribute to the system overload the requested access may be judged to be not-admissible. Different service level indicators may be assigned to different clients. If access is deemed to contribute to the system overload, the requested access of clients having a relative high service level indicator may be given preference or priority over clients having a relative low service level indicator.