Method and apparatus providing call admission that favors mullti-slot mobile stations at cell edges

A cellular communications system, comprising:

• a plurality of mobile stations located within at least one cell;
• a base transceiver station (BTS) for servicing said cell;
• a base station controller (BSC) coupled to said BTS;
• and
• a Call Admission processor coupled to said BTS for receiving a call admission request from mobile stations located in the cell served by said BTS, said processor granting cellular communications system resources to the mobile stations based at least in part on level of service required by the mobile stations and on a location of the mobile stations within the cell, wherein for a mobile station having a high bandwidth requirement that is determined to be located at the edge of the cell, the mobile station is preferentially granted system resources by being assigned a plurality of time slots per frame for forming one radio information block, and is operated with a coding technique that employs an iterative decoding technique.

A method for granting system access to mobile stations, comprising:

• receiving a call admission request from a mobile station;
• granting system resources to the mobile station based at least in part on a bandwidth requirement of the mobile station and on a location of the mobile station within the cell, wherein for a mobile station having a high bandwidth requirement that is located at the cell edge, the mobile station is preferentially granted system resources by being assigned a plurality of time slots per frame for forming one radio information block, and by being operated with a coding technique that employs an iterative decoding technique;
• and
• monitoring changes in the location and the system resource requirements of the mobile station and varying the granted system resources accordingly.