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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2003
Farzam Toudeh-fallah, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hariprasad Ginjpalli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Farzam Toudeh-Fallah, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hariprasad Ginjpalli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Self converging communication fair rate control systems and methods of the present invention facilitate fair utilization of node buffers and optimized utilization of available bandwidth. A self converging communication fair rate control method provides a fair rate that is utilized to determine a connection rate for communicating information from a plurality of virtual connection queues to a class of service buffer (COSB). The self converging communication fair rate control method includes establishing a self-convergence factor, determining a buffer flow ratio, and adjusting a fair rate value based upon the buffer flow ratio and the self-convergence factor. The buffer is divided into buffer fill regions designated by fair rate convergence-adaptation thresholds and are associated with self-convergence factors. The fair rate self-convergence factors dynamically decrease fair rate values that result in a buffer filling up and increase fair rate values that result in a buffer emptying out.