Traffic control system having distributed rate calculation and link flow control
US6615271B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 19, 1999 |
| Grant date | Sep 2, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 19, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02D30/50
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A rate based, end to end flow control system is disclosed for a communications network. The disclosed rate based flow control system includes each source end station selecting its transmission rate from a set of permitted discrete transmission rates. The set of permitted discrete transmission rates is based on a logarithmic encoding. The disclosed rate based traffic control system further requires each source end station to send one end to end control cell every time period T. The time period T is also known by switches in the communications network and is used to periodically calculate an available allocation (“fair share”) of bandwidth at a switch for a given virtual circuit.
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