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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2023
United States Government As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, San Diego, CA (US);
Pedro Andres Forero, Bonita, CA (US);
Peng Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Dusan Radosevic, Poway, CA (US);
United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling congestion in intermittently-connected and lossy computer networks comprising: determining, at a local network node, a payoff score for each of a plurality of active flows of network traffic, wherein each active flow consists of a stream of in-transit packets at the local network node that come from a common source and share a common destination, wherein each active flow's payoff score is based on a pricing model that considers both a sojourn time and a position in a queue of each of an active flow's constituent packets; allocating unused buffer space across all active flows in the local network node based on relative traffic loads with a buffer-space allocation (BSA) agent; and controlling a rate at which packets from all active flows are received at the local network node with a hop-by-hop local-flow-control (LFC) agent according to each flow's payoff score.