System and method for facilitating global fairness in a network
US11916782B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 23, 2020 |
| Grant date | Feb 27, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 23, 2040 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/28
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data-driven intelligent networking system that can facilitate global fairness is provided. The system can maintain state information of individual packet flows, which can be set up or released dynamically based on injected data. Each flow can be provided with a flow-specific input queue upon arriving at a switch. Packets of a respective flow are acknowledged after reaching the egress point of the network, and the acknowledgement packets are sent back to the ingress point of the flow along the same data path. As a result, each switch can obtain state information of each flow and enforce global fairness on a per-flow basis.
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