Packet switching
US7123611B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 25, 2001 |
| Grant date | Oct 17, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 12, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L49/205
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a method for cell level scheduling for handling multicast traffic in routing devices, such as cross-bar switches having, a plurality of ingress line interface cards (LICs), a plurality of egress LICs, a cross-bar and a controller, multicast and unicast data traffic passes from the ingress LICs via the cross-bar to the egress LICs. A given multicast data packet is sent from a given ingress LIC to a predetermined set of egress LICs known as the fanout of the given packet. Each ingress LIC has an associated rate of send opportunities. The method allows multicast send opportunities to be spread as evenly as possible over cell periods, by invoking a conventional unicast scheduling scheme when one or more multicast send opportunities are present. The schedule is filled out with the fanouts of multicast packets in accordance with the send priority associated with the respective ingress LICs upon which each of the respective multicast packets is queued.
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