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Cell rate control device and method

US5923645A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 17, 1997
Grant dateJul 13, 1999
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Expiry dateMar 17, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2012/5642
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A bottleneck path prediction/storage unit predicts a bottleneck path, that is, a logic circuit whose transmission rate is limited by a cell switching unit other than a predetermined cell switching unit, the logic circuit being one of the logic circuits which use a predetermined physical circuit in the predetermined cell switching unit. An ER computation unit sets an ER value in a resource management cell transferred through the physical circuit based on a state (number of active logic circuits) of the logic circuit which uses the physical circuit and information about the bottleneck path predicted by the bottleneck path prediction/storage unit.

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