Hop-by-hop flow control in an ATM network

C Basso, J Calvignac, D Orsatti… - US Patent 5,787,071, 1998 - Google Patents
A communication system comprises a plurality of nodes interconnected by links comprising
a plurality of connections. The traffic between the nodes is set up by a reserved bandwidth …

Flow control of ABR traffic in ATM networks

YA Ra'ed, O Aboul-Magd - US Patent 5,754,530, 1998 - Google Patents
An ATM network carries several categories of services, each having its own traffic
characteristics and performance requirements. The ABR (available bit rate) service category …

Method and system for burst congestion control in an ATM network

A Gersht, G Pathak, A Shulman - US Patent 6,754,177, 2004 - Google Patents
A method and system for controlling congestion in an ATM network comprises the steps of
pre-allocating, for a pre-determined interval of time, a set of burst access parameters to a set …

Flow control mechanism of ABR traffic in ATM networks

YA Ra'ed, JF Pillar - US Patent 5,991,268, 1999 - Google Patents
An ATM network carries several categories of services, each having its own traffic
characteristics and performance requirements. The ABR (available bit rate) service category …

Connection admission control for ATM networks

SIA Shah, K Qian, TD Morris - US Patent 5,862,126, 1999 - Google Patents
In an ATM network, the physical resources are shared by many connection and the
bandwidth is allocated virtually to each connection. The connection admission control (CAC) …

Traffic shaping and ABR flow control

Q Zheng, RB Osborne, JH Howard - US Patent 5,745,477, 1998 - Google Patents
In an ATM network interface controller, a traffic management system is provided to allow
implementation of available bit rate, or ABR, flow control by an external processor and the …

Dynamic fair queuing to support best effort traffic in an ATM network

J Calvignac, D Orsatti, F Verplanken - US Patent 5,629,928, 1997 - Google Patents
Aflow control apparatus implemented in a virtual path ATM communication system
comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected by physical links which comprise virtual paths …

Selective congestion control mechanism for information networks

HR Van As, HR Schindler - US Patent 5,901,140, 1999 - Google Patents
This invention is an implementation of a congestion control mechanism, especially for ATM
networks supporting data services or other nonreserved bandwidth traffic, eg in multimedia …

Variable-bandwidth network

H Hasegawa, N Yamanaka, K Shiomoto - US Patent 5,878,029, 1999 - Google Patents
When bandwidth in an ATM network is controlled so as to increase in accordance with a
user request, there is a considerable delay from the occurrence of the request until the …

Method and apparatus for allocation of available bandwidth

K Van Vu, A Ghanwani, BA Makrucki - US Patent 6,587,436, 2003 - Google Patents
A data transfer flow control system for a packet ATM communications system includes a
plurality of nodes interconnected by transmission links. Available bandwidth allocation for …