Capacity estimation of a wireless link

An analytics engine of a wireless network, operative to:

• obtain capabilities of a transmitter and of a receiver of a wireless link;
• collect information of a wireless transmission, wherein the wireless transmission comprises at least a portion of a transmission signal with electromagnetic energy above a certain threshold within a frequency band of the wireless link;
• estimate transmission opportunities available for the transmitter to transmit wireless communications to the receiver based on the obtained capabilities and the collected information;
• estimate an achievable transmission rate by the transmitter based on the determined capabilities and the collected information;
• estimate, based on the estimated transmission opportunities and the estimated achievable transmission rate, a capacity corresponding to a throughput estimate of at least one wireless stream of the wireless link at the time a packet of the at least one wireless stream is transmitted over the wireless link;
• manipulate, using the estimated capacity, a parameter of a wireless network;
• and
• divide transmission opportunities wherein a plurality of wireless streams that use less than assigned transmission opportunities maintain a portion of the transmission opportunities and remaining transmission opportunities are equally divided among remaining streams.

A wireless system, comprising:

• a sensor, the sensor operative to sense information of a wireless transmission, wherein the wireless transmission comprises at least a portion of a transmission signal with electromagnetic energy above a certain threshold within a frequency band of a wireless link;
• and
• an analytics engine, the analytics engine operative to:
• obtain capabilities of a transmitter and of a receiver of the wireless link;
• collect the information of the wireless transmission;
• estimate transmission opportunities available for the transmitter to transmit wireless communications to the receiver based on the obtained capabilities and the collected information;
• estimate an achievable transmission rate by the transmitter based on the determined capabilities and the collected information;
• estimate, based on the estimated transmission opportunities and the estimated achievable transmission rate, the capacity corresponding to a throughput estimate of at least one wireless stream of the wireless link at the time a packet of the at least one wireless stream is transmitted over the wireless link;
• manipulate, using the estimated capacity, a parameter of a wireless network;
• and
• divide transmission opportunities wherein a plurality of wireless streams that use less than assigned transmission opportunities maintain a portion of the transmission opportunities and remaining transmission opportunities are equally divided among remaining streams.