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Network stabilizer

US8717893B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 29, 2010
Grant dateMay 6, 2014
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Expiry dateOct 4, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L47/323
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A network device determines that an outgoing network-to-network interface has dropped one or more network control packets and incrementally adjusts, based on the determining, a drop threshold parameter for the network control packets to give preference to the network control packets over non-network control packets. After the adjusting, the network device monitors traffic over the interface, and preempts, based on the monitoring, a low-priority label switched path (LSP) using the interface when the interface reaches a congested threshold or when the interface has dropped one or more other network control packets. The network device restores the low-priority LSP to the interface when the interface has reached an uncongested threshold.

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