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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2010
Jean-philippe Vasseur, Saint Martin d'Uriage, FR;
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles Okwudiafor, Fremont, CA (US);
Sandeep Shetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Saint Martin d'Uriage, FR;
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles Okwudiafor, Fremont, CA (US);
Sandeep Shetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a receiving node in a computer network may detect congestion, and also identifies a set (e.g., subset) of its neighbor nodes. In response to the congestion, the receiving node may assign a transmission timeslot to each neighbor node of the set based on the congestion, where each neighbor is allowed to transmit (synchronously) only during its respective timeslot. The assigned timeslots may then be transmitted to the set of neighbor nodes. In another embodiment, a transmitting node (e.g., a neighbor node of the receiving node) may receive a scheduling packet from the receiving node. Accordingly, the transmitting node may determine its assigned transmission timeslot during which the transmitting node is allowed to transmit. As such, the transmitting node may then transmit packets only during the assigned timeslot (e.g., for a given time). In this manner, congestion at the receiving node may be reduced.