Definitions for "Admission control"
A mechanism for a rate policy that determines what happens when there isn't enough bandwidth to satisfy guaranteed rate requests (such as refuse connections or give a trickle of bandwidth). See Apply Admission Control.
A step in every flow activation, when the required bandwidth is allocated (or not) according to user demand (minimum bandwidth and maximum number of connections) and system state.
A first-come first-serve resource allocation policy in which requests for guarantees are rejected if the resulting total utilization would exceed some threshold.
Keywords:  cops, request, quality, features, users
A service (like COPS+) that controls which users or systems can request Quality of Service features.