Method and apparatus for controlling traffic flows in a packet-switched network
CA 2261012 A1 · Owner: Davis, Tom · Inventors: Hung, Anthony; Davis, Tom; Pezeshki-Esfahani, Hossain
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A scheduling device for use in a packet-switched network belonging to the , class of , non-work conserving or idling weighted round robin (WRR) arbiters assigns a , packet stream slots, in a fixed-length time division multiple access (TDMA) frame by selecting free slots which are, closest to ideal slot positions that would if assigned, eliminate fitter or , cell delay variation. The scheduler is able to simultaneously determine if a new constant bit rate connection, requiring a predetermined bandwidth conforms to a leaky bucket or GCRA algorithm, characterized by a peak packet or cell emission interval T=1/PCR and a packet or cell delay, variation time, CDVT, i.e. whether the new …
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- Filed February 3, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 3, 2019.
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