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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
May. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Nec Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, DE;
Inventors:
Andreas Maeder, Wuerzburg, DE;
Faqir Zarrar Yousaf, Leimen, DE;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/853 (2013.01); H04L 12/841 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0289 (2013.01); H04L 43/062 (2013.01); H04L 43/067 (2013.01); H04L 47/11 (2013.01); H04L 47/2416 (2013.01); H04L 47/28 (2013.01); H04W 28/0284 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for providing congestion information in a network is performed in a memory available to a computing entity. A traffic demand is obtained within a certain part of the network by evaluating an amount of traffic in the part of the network per time. A congestion value representing a congestion level of a bottleneck connection link in the network is calculated. The congestion value is a scalar and calculated based on a comparison between measured and/or estimated traffic and traffic demand within a certain part of said network.