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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1998
Teunis J. Ott, Chester, NJ (US);
Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for determining the number of active connections in a node in a communications network are described. The node determines the number of active connections by sampling a list of recently active connections in the node when the node receives a packet, and estimating the number of active connections based on whether the packet is associated with a sampled entry in the list. Each entry in the list includes a connection identifier and a count. The node stabilizes the buffer occupancy by estimating the number of active connections in the node based on a sampling of the list of recently active connections when the node receives a packet, determining a probability for discarding the packet based on the estimated number of active connections and the recent buffer occupancy, and discarding the packet according to the determined probability. Finally, the node monitors the connection associated with the received packet when the connection is associated with the connection identifier in a sampled entry, the count of the sampled entry exceeds a first predetermined threshold, and/or a total occurrences of the connection identifier in the list exceeds a second predetermined threshold.