Traffic control system having distributed rate calculation and link flow control

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6615271
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09421021

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A rate based, end to end flow control system is disclosed for a communications network. The disclosed rate based flow control system includes each source end station selecting its transmission rate from a set of permitted discrete transmission rates. The set of permitted discrete transmission rates is based on a logarithmic encoding. The disclosed rate based traffic control system further requires each source end station to send one end to end control cell every time period T. The time period T is also known by switches in the communications network and is used to periodically calculate an available allocation ('fair share') of bandwidth at a switch for a given virtual circuit.

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  • ENTERASYS NETWORKS, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Charny, Anna Sudbury, MA 53 1440
Lauck, Anthony G Wellesley, MA 16 888
Ramakrishnan, Kadangode K Maynard, MA 156 6337

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