CPC H04L 47/808 (2013.01) [H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); H04L 41/5025 (2013.01); H04W 28/0268 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method of managing multi-channel network traffic comprising:
gathering data associated with each network user's traffic;
for a plurality of network users, allocating the data associated with each network user's traffic to one or more channels of the multi-channel network to identify allocations on an efficient frontier;
starting from the allocations on the efficient frontier, further allocating the data associated with each network user's traffic to one or more of the channels to obtain secondary allocations;
calculating a mean and variance of the data according to each of the secondary allocations;
identifying one or more of the secondary allocations as providing beneficial allocations of network traffic when the secondary allocation minimizes the variance of traffic in each channel; and
implementing one of the beneficial allocations on the multi-channel network.
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