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Hybrid weighted round robin (WRR) traffic scheduling

US8462802B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 13, 2010
Grant dateJun 11, 2013
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L47/522
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A network device receives traffic associated with a network of intermediate network devices and user devices, classifies the received traffic, and allocates the classified traffic to traffic queues. The network device also schedules particular queued traffic, provided in the traffic queues and bound for particular intermediate network devices, using a hybrid weighted round robin (WRR) scheduler where the hybrid WRR scheduler schedules the particular queued traffic according to one of a 1-level WRR schedule, a 1.5 level WRR schedule, or a 2-level WRR schedule. The network device further provides the particular queued traffic to the particular intermediate network devices based on the scheduling of the hybrid WRR scheduler.

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