Apparatuses and methods for managing and regulating power consumption and resource allocations in communication systems and networks

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• identifying a first value corresponding to a completion of a transmission of first data to a communication device via a first network connection;
• identifying a second value corresponding to a completion of a transmission of second data to the communication device via a second network connection that is different from the first network connection;
• computing a first term as a summation of the first value and a first inactivity timer;
• computing a second term as a summation of the second value and a second inactivity timer, wherein the second inactivity timer is different from the first inactivity timer;
• computing a value for a time gap as a difference between the first term and the second term;
• and
• adjusting respective shares of third data that are to be transmitted to the communication device via the first network connection and the second network connection based on the value for the time gap in order to reduce the time gap.

A method, comprising:

• computing, by a processing system including a processor, a first time gap for releasing at least one resource associated with a first network connection, the first time gap corresponding to a time between a time of completion of a first transfer of first data via the first network connection and a time of completion of a second transfer of second data via a second network connection that is different from the first network connection;
• determining, by the processing system and based on the computing of the first time gap, that the first time gap exceeds a threshold;
• and
• adjusting, by the processing system and based on the determining, respective shares of third data that are to be transferred via the first network connection and the second network connection in order to reduce the first time gap.