Communications cell scheduler and scheduling method for providing proportional use of network bandwith

GS Delp, PL Leichty - US Patent 5,844,890, 1998 - Google Patents
[57] ABSTRACT A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling the transmission of
cells of a plurality of data streams in a communications netWork. Abest effort scheduler is …

Earliest deadline first communications cell scheduler and scheduling method for transmitting earliest deadline cells first

GS Delp, V Firoiu, RA Guerin, PL Leichty… - US Patent …, 2000 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling the transmission of cells of a plurality
of data streams in a communications network. An earliest deadline first (EDF) scheduler is …

Prioritized access to shared buffers

SA Hauser, SA Caldara, TA Manning - US Patent 6,115,748, 2000 - Google Patents
In a link-level flow controlled system, a method and apparatus providing the ability to
partition a buffer resource among multiple prioritized buffer subsets through definition of at …

ATM cell scheduler

JW Byrn, GS Delp, PL Leichty, BV Patel… - US Patent …, 1996 - Google Patents
Asslgnee: 21: 52: 22: gchmes A method and apparatus for scheduling the transmission of a
number of data streams over a common communications link, where each of the data …

Method and apparatus for scheduling cells based on pre-synchronized frames

DN Kim - US Patent 6,044,091, 2000 - Google Patents
ATM CELL JITTER CONTROL counter which counts down the time slots of each frame to be
reset to a frame size is assigned to each node of each connection. All the frame counters at …

Cell/frame scheduling method and communications cell/frame scheduler

GS Delp, PL Leichty, KG Plotz - US Patent 6,477,168, 2002 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling the transmission of cells and frames in
a communications network. The transmission of cells and frames are scheduled utilizing a …

Method of allocating bandwidth on request to the stations of a local area network

L Denecheau, D Esteve, P Sicsic - US Patent 7,248,601, 2007 - Google Patents
A method of bandwidth management enabling to insure a guaranteed bandwidth to each
station of transmission network comprising a plurality of stations (10, 12, 14) forming a …

Minimum guaranteed cell rate method and apparatus

TA Manning, SA Caldara, SA Hauser - US Patent 6,002,667, 1999 - Google Patents
3,804,991 4/1974 Hammond et al........................ 179/26 buffer Sharing while maintaining the
per-connection band 3,974,343 8/1976 Cheney et al....... 179/18 ES width guarantee. No cell …

Method and apparatus for aligning a digital communication data stream across a cell network

SA Rahman, JP O'hare - US Patent 5,274,635, 1993 - Google Patents
57 ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for aligning a digital communi cation data stream
across a cell network, wherein plu rality of timeslot samples are generated by sampling the …

Available bit rate scheduler

S Radhakrishnan, SJ Dabecki, DW Wong - US Patent 5,706,288, 1998 - Google Patents
An available bit rate scheduling method and apparatus for asynchronous transfer mode
communication of a plurality of cells over a network characterized by a system clock …