Method and system for monitoring and controlling data flow in a network congestion state by changing each calculated pause time by a random amount

JW Linville, BA Makrucki, ES Suffern… - US Patent …, 2001 - Google Patents
Flow control is implemented at a given node in a network of LAN switches by having the
node monitor the occupancy levels of buffers or queues. When a buffer is found to be …

Input buffer controller using back-pressure signals in ATM switches and a method for determining the logical queue size

JJ Shin, K Lee, DK Sung, JW Heo, SH Byun… - US Patent …, 2001 - Google Patents
System and a method for determining the logical queue depth, using the back-pressure
Signal and the occupied buffer depth information and Supporting the P classes, are …

Adaptive bandwidth sharing

T Kaczynski - US Patent 6,205,119, 2001 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus for the efficient management of electronic communications in a ring
topology network. Each Send packet and Echo packet includes a mechanism used to …