Traffic management in packet communication networks having service priorities and employing effective bandwidths

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method is provided for admitting new requests for service in a shared resource having a capacity. The new request has service priority levels associated therewith. In one embodiment of the invention for example, the shared resource, may be a packet communications network and the service request may be a request to admit a new connection. The method proceeds as follows. First for each service, priority level on said shared resource a total effective bandwidth is generated which is represented by a sum of individual effective bandwidths of previously admitted requests for service. Subsequent to receiving a new request for service having aspecified priority of service level a plurality of …