METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIERARCHICAL BANDWIDTH DISTRIBUTIONIN A PACKET NETWORK

• Main Authors: IDIRENE, NASSER E, FRANCINI, ANDREA, CLANCY, ROBERT T, DRUCKER, KEVIN D, CHIUSSI, FABIO M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 10.07.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A scheduler apparatus provides bandwidth guarantees to individual data packet flows as well as to aggregations of those flows (referred to as "bundles") in a completely transparent manner, i.e., without using any additional scheduli ng structure. For each bundle, the scheduler determines t...