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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2000
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In the packet scheduling device, the output class selection part is made to conduct the selective output of priority class, based on the weight count value calculated from a weight value corresponding to minimum guarantee bandwidth for each priority class and the amount of packet accumulated in each queue. The output class selection part operates so that if the weight count value is “0” or more, then the packet length of variable-length packet data to be output is subtracted from the current weight count value to give a renewed weight count value. On the other hand, if the weight count value is less than “0”, until reaching a predetermined repeat count (Cmax−1), the weight value of each priority class is added to the weight count value of all priority classes, and, when reaching the repeat count (Cmax−1), the weight value is added to the weight count value of all priority classes or replaced by half the weight value. Thereby, the weight count value is made to be more than “0”, and the values thus renewed are subject to the rule of round robin so as to select the priority class.