wherein the base station chooses for the entity one of the plurality of flow management schedulers according to the indication of function selection other methods apparatuses and systems also are disclosed application_number US 201414247431 A description the present invention is directed to a customizable and adaptive flow management emulator cafe that provides an interface for flow management in cellular basestations such as wimax and lte the inventive cafe enables deploying different custom flow management schedulers designed for diverse performance objectives on the same basestation the inventive cafe provides a generic framework that enables entities either from within the basestation or outside the basestation to dynamically configure and execute custom flow management cafe defines several interfaces apis that allow entities to configure the basestation in distinct ways these different approaches ensure that the same basestation design can meet the requirements of a broader class of entities entities could refer to mnos mvnos corporate enterprise networks and experimenters researchers entities may execute outside the physical boundaries of the basestation or within the basestation e g as a virtual machine inside the basestation referring now to fig2 there is shown a block diagram of the inventive caf u00e9 that is a flow management emulation framework that is preferably implemented as part of a cellular basestation the.