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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2009
Jay Kumar Sundararajan, San Diego, CA (US);
Devavrat Shah, Newton, MA (US);
Muriel Medard, Belmont, MA (US);
Michael Mitzenmacher, Lexington, MA (US);
Joao Barros, Oporto, PT;
Szymon Jakubczak, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jay Kumar Sundararajan, San Diego, CA (US);
Devavrat Shah, Newton, MA (US);
Muriel Medard, Belmont, MA (US);
Michael Mitzenmacher, Lexington, MA (US);
Joao Barros, Oporto, PT;
Szymon Jakubczak, Cambridge, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen.