Dragonwave Inc.

Spacebridge Semiconductor Corporation

Spacebridge Networks Corporation

Jun Huang

Tom Duxbury

Eko-Adi Wibowo

Fengchun Duan

An apparatus and method for controlling wireless communication signals is provided, in which a wireless transmitter in a communication network generates a signal carrying data for wireless transmission, and is capable of varying the data carrying capacity of the wireless transmission channel in response to the quantity of data received for wireless transmission. A monitor is provided to monitor the quantity of received data and the capacity of the communication channel is increased if the monitored quantity exceeds a predetermined threshold. The capacity of the communication channel can be varied by varying the level of modulation and/or by varying the level of code inserted into the data stream. The output power of the wireless transmission signal may be varied in response to the quantity of received data.

Apparatus and method for controlling wireless communication signals

A Soft, Prioritised Early Packet Discard System is provided, which is suitable for satellite onboard switching and very-high-speed terrestrial switching applications. The system counts the number of newly arriving packets, calculates and regularly updates an average queue size, which is used in setting a packet-count threshold via a descending staircase function. When the number of newly arriving packets reaches the packet-count threshold and when the average queue size reaches or exceeds the congestion threshold; a packet is discarded and the packet-counter is reset to zero. The counting of packets is halted while the average queue size remains below the congestion threshold. The regular dropping of packets allows simplified hardware implementations. In calculating the average queue size, a progressively higher exponential queue-length averaging parameter is used for higher instantaneous queue length, to provide faster reaction to congestion situations. The averaging parameters and packet-count thresholds are implemented using lookup tables. A priority-based method is incorporated to better match the Quality of Service requirements associated with a service class.

Soft, prioritized early packet discard system

A cell or packet-based Connection Admission Control (CAC) solution is provided for transmitting Protocol Data Units (PDU) such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) user cells or Internet Protocol integrated and differentiated service packets. The CAC method and apparatus allocate network resources including user cell/packet transferring bandwidth in the channel/connection/flow set-up phase. The calculation of Effective Bandwidth is implemented in hardware using an additive-Fractal and measurement-based approach to shorten the processing time and to increase overall system reliability and efficiency.

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