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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2016
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Min Luo, Cumming, GA (US);
Shih-Chun Lin, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Ian F. Akyildiz, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/875 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/2441 (2013.01); H04L 43/0852 (2013.01); H04L 47/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network element (NE) comprising a receiver configured to receive packets from a plurality of flows, and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to perform classification on the plurality of flows according to arrivals of the packets to classify the plurality of flows into a heavy-tailed (HT) class and a light-tailed (LT) class assign scheduling weights to the plurality of flows according to the classification, and select a scheduling policy to forward the packets of the plurality of flows according to the scheduling weights.