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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Olivier Bertin, Nice, FR;
Jean-Paul Chobert, Carros, FR;
Olivier Maurel, Le Cannet, FR;
Alain Pruvost, Vallauris, FR;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370254 ; 370406 ; 370444 ;
Abstract
High speed network nodes can establish new connections by preempting existing ones when insufficient bandwidth is available in the network. Numerous preemption priorities are arranged in a limited number of groups and a median priority level is defined within each group. This median, stored in the topology database of each node of the network, permits better bandwidth utilization per group while consuming very little memory space and generating very low traffic overhead.