Traffic generator with priority flow control
US9313115B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 4, 2013 |
| Grant date | Apr 12, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/30
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Traffic generators, methods, and computer readable storage media for testing a network are disclosed. A scheduler may determine a sequence of packets to be transmitted, each packet in the sequence of packets belonging to one of a plurality of flow control groups. A packet generator may generate packets in the determined sequence and output completed packets for transmission over a network under test. The packet generator may include a first processing engine and a last processing engine configured as a pipeline to perform respective sequential stages of a packet generation process, and a first bank of first-in-first-out (FIFO) queues including a plurality of FIFO queues corresponding to the plurality of flow control groups. The first processing engine may store first packet forming data associated with each flow control group in the corresponding FIFO queue of the first bank of FIFO queues.
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