Controlling fair bandwidth allocation efficiently
US10630601B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 6, 2018 |
| Grant date | Apr 21, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 6, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/6265
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Micro-schedulers control bandwidth allocation for clients, each client subscribing to a respective predefined portion of bandwidth of an outgoing communication link. A macro-scheduler controls the micro-schedulers, by allocating the respective subscribed portion of bandwidth associated with each respective client that is active, by a predefined first deadline, with residual bandwidth that is unused by the respective clients being shared proportionately among respective active clients by a predefined second deadline, while minimizing coordination among micro-schedulers by the macro-scheduler periodically adjusting respective bandwidth allocations to each micro-scheduler.
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