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 ØAdmission control is the
 process which determines whether a connection request in a network should be
 accepted or rejected. 
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 ØAC estimates the level of
 QoS that a new user session will need, checks whether there are
 enough resources to service that session and the affect that the
 entrance of the new session will have in the existing ones.
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 ØAC decides whether it
 should accept the new client or not by characterizing the
 requirements of the new flow and estimating the network’s state after it
 is admitted.
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 ØContributes to sustaining QoS