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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2007
Daniel Matthew Andrews, New Providence, NJ (US);
Piyush Gupta, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Iraj Saniee, New Providence, NJ (US);
Aleksandr Stolyar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Daniel Matthew Andrews, New Providence, NJ (US);
Piyush Gupta, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Iraj Saniee, New Providence, NJ (US);
Aleksandr Stolyar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A technique for controlling a packet data network to maintain network stability and efficiently utilize network resources through mechanisms involving per-destination queues and urgency weights for medium access control. The technique jointly controls congestion, scheduling, and contention resolution on hop-by-hop basis, such that the length of queues of packets at a node does not become arbitrarily large. In one embodiment, queue lengths and urgency weights may be transmitted and received via medium access control messages.