Congestion control in a communication network

A Jonsson, M Skarve - US Patent 9,408,109, 2016 - Google Patents
A method for congestion control in a network node (20) of a communication network utilizing
a distributed queue system for transmission of data units is disclosed. Said network node …

Flow control in computer networks

CD Jeffries, JR Nair, MS Siegel… - US Patent 7,224,670, 2007 - Google Patents
The decision within a packet processing device to transmit a newly arriving packet into a
queue to await processing or to discard the same packet is made by a flow control method …

Congestion management scheme

BW Johnson, HM Hoang - US Patent 5,822,300, 1998 - Google Patents
A congestion management scheme for managing traffic in a data communication system
having a plurality of port blocks at least one of which may be connected to a communication …

System for guaranteeing data transfer rates and delays in packet networks

FM Chiussi, A Francini - US Patent 6,075,791, 2000 - Google Patents
A system is disclosed which services a plurality of queues associated with respective data
connections such that the system guarantees data transfer rates and data transfer delays to …

Fair queuing system with adaptive bandwidth redistribution

NG Duffield, TV Lakshman, D Stiliadis - US Patent 6,452,933, 2002 - Google Patents
Apparatus for routing packets in a communication network comprises a plurality of per-
connection queues, each queue established for receiving packets from a respective source …

Method and system for network processor scheduling based on service levels

BM Bass, JL Calvignac, MC Heddes, MS Siegel… - US Patent …, 2006 - Google Patents
A system and method of moving information units from an output flow control toward a data
transmission network in a prioritized sequence which accommodates several different levels …

Method and apparatus for controlling data transmission volume using explicit rate control and queuing without data rate supervision

JE Okholm, S Aggarwal, MJ Quinn - US Patent 7,236,459, 2007 - Google Patents
Packet flow rate control techniques are enhanced by the interactive and early invocation of
packet queuing to control short flows of packets and to eliminate undershoot and overshoot …

Method and apparatus for controlling transmission flow using explicit rate control and queuing without data rate supervision

JE Okholm, S Aggarwal, MJ Quinn - US Patent 7,720,085, 2010 - Google Patents
Packet flow rate control techniques are enhanced by the interactive and early invocation of
packet queuing to control short flows of packets and to eliminate undershoot and overshoot …

Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network

RJ Kloth, TJ Edsall, M Fine, DG Dutt - US Patent 6,868,065, 2005 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus for implementing Quality of Service (QoS) policy in a data
communications network. An active flow content addressable memory (CAM) contains …

Approximated per-flow rate limiting

DR Cheriton - US Patent 7,630,312, 2009 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus to limit the throughput rate on a packet-by-packet basis. Each
packet of an input flow is mapped to an entry in a flow table for each output queue. The …