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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
Prasad N. Golla, Plano, TX (US);
John Blanton, Dallas, TX (US);
Gerard Damm, Ottawa, CA;
Dominique Verchere, Chauffailles, FR;
Céline Haardt, Bouloc, FR;
Farid Farahmand, Plano, TX (US);
Prasad N. Golla, Plano, TX (US);
John Blanton, Dallas, TX (US);
Gerard Damm, Ottawa, CA;
Dominique Verchere, Chauffailles, FR;
Céline Haardt, Bouloc, FR;
Farid Farahmand, Plano, TX (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A scheduling system and method operable with a burst switching element wherein control information is provided to the switching element via a separate Burst Header that precedes data bursts on ingress data channels. In one embodiment, a series of scheduling determinations are made in a select order such that packet treatment (i.e., processing for transmission, buffering, or packet dropping) is optimized with respect to packet loss and available buffer space. In another embodiment, control information received in the Burst Headers is utilized to reserve output data channel bandwidth to future incoming data packets in a forward-looking scheduling mechanism.