Flow control for high speed networks
US5063562A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 23, 1990 |
| Grant date | Nov 5, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 23, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/27
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the window size in a session between a sender and a receiver over a link of a packet transmission network. This invention discloses a dynamic window adjustment scheme to determine the optimum window size with a minimum number of iterations. This invention also covers a method and apparatus for sharing pacing credits among a number of sessions during which packets are transmitted over the network. With this invention sessions having no packets to transmit will send pacing credits to a shared credit pool while pacing credits will be distributed to those session having packets to transmit.
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