Management of resources in a point-to-multipoint- or multipoint-to-multipoint-type communication network, using two allocation levels

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The invention relates to a point-to-multipoint- or multipoint-to-multipoint-type communications network comprising remote traffic stations which are connected to a traffic management centre (CG) by means of resource-sharing radio links. The management centre (CG) comprises management means (13) for determining a primary resource distribution including allocation margins, between the different radio links which they manage and which have been pre-set between the traffic stations according to first information data representative of the occupancy rates by type of traffic, for the resources previously allocated to said radio links. Each traffic station can then determine a secondary …