FINE GRAIN TRAFFIC SHAPING OFFLOAD FOR A NETWORK INTERFACE CARD

A network interface card (140) with traffic shaping capabilities and methods of network traffic shaping with a network interface card (140) are provided. The network interface card (140) and method can shape traffic originating from one or more applications (150a-c) executing on a host network devic...

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Main Authors DUKKIPATI, Nandita, CHANDRA, Prashant, VALANCIUS, Vytautas
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 01.06.2022
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:A network interface card (140) with traffic shaping capabilities and methods of network traffic shaping with a network interface card (140) are provided. The network interface card (140) and method can shape traffic originating from one or more applications (150a-c) executing on a host network device. The applications (150a-c) can execute in a virtual machine or containerized computing environment. The network interface card (140) and method can perform or include several traffic shaping mechanisms including, for example and without limitation, a delayed completion mechanism, a time-indexed data structure (130), a packet builder (147), and a memory manager (147).
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20220151467