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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1999
Metin Aydemir, Durham, NC (US);
Brian Mitchell Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Clark Debs Jeffries, Durham, NC (US);
Sonia Kiang Rovner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Michael Steven Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Anthony Matteo Gallo, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for controlling a flow of a plurality of packets in a computer network is disclosed. The computer network includes a queue. The method and system include determining a queue level for the queue and determining an offered rate of the plurality of packets to the queue. The method and system also include controlling a transmission fraction of the plurality of packets to the queue, based on the queue level, the offered rate and a previous value of the transmission fraction so that the transmission fraction and the queue level are critically damped if the queue level is between at least a first queue level and a second queue level.