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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2006
Riccardo Martinotti, Savona, IT;
Raoul Fiorone, Genoa, IT;
Andrea Corti, Varazze, IT;
Ericsson AB, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and a transport scheme for packets of traffic over a logical link made up of the aggregation of several physical links () connecting a transmitting side to a receiving side in which flows of incoming packets are sent to a scheduler/shaper () which selects therefrom packets for creating a global flow of packets falling within the bandwidth offered by the logical link on the basis of the bandwidth capability offered by the logical link. A distributor () distributes the global flow over the plurality of physical links () making up the logical link, oversees the physical links and sends to the scheduler/shaper signalling of a bandwidth decrease caused by failures of one or more physical links. The scheduler/shaper () is arranged to allow automatically for the logical link bandwidth variations while selecting the packets from the various incoming queues depending on the associated service class so as to cause the global flow to fall within the aggregated logical link bandwidth. This involves more queuing of packets and their possible drop according to the queue management criteria implemented, in the queues associated with the lowest service class.