Signaling connection admission control in a wireless network

A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests comprising:

• receiving a signaling connection request;
• determining whether to admit the signaling connection request to either common resources or dedicated resources;
• and
• determining whether to reject the signaling connection request based on a predicted condition of common resources and dedicated resources and quality of access to common resources of the signaling connection request wherein:
• the signaling connection request is rejected if it is determined that the signaling connection request cannot be admitted to either common resources or dedicated resources;
• the signaling connection request is admitted to common resources if it is determined that the predicted condition of common resources is below a common resources threshold and the quality of access is high or that the predicted condition of common resources is below the common resources threshold and the quality of access is low and the signaling connection request cannot be admitted to dedicated resources;
• and
• the signaling connection request is admitted to dedicated resources if it is determined that the signaling connection request cannot be admitted to common resources but can be admitted to dedicated resources or that the signaling connection request can be admitted both to common resources and dedicated resources and the priority of the signaling connection request is low.

A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests comprising:

• receiving a signaling connection request;
• determining whether to admit the signaling connection request to either common resources or dedicated resources;
• and
• determining whether to reject the signaling connection request based on a predicted condition of common resources and dedicated resources and quality of access to common resources of the signaling connection request wherein the determination whether to admit the signaling connection request to common resources comprises:
• determining whether conditions of a random access channel (RACH) are suitable for accepting the signaling connection request;
• determining whether conditions of a forward access channel (FACH) are suitable for accepting the signaling connection request;
• and
• making a decision to admit the signaling connection request to common resources if both determinations are positive, otherwise making a decision to reject the signaling connection request to common resources.