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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2010
Wael Noureddine, Mountain View, CA (US);
Asgeir Thor Eiriksson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wael Noureddine, Mountain View, CA (US);
Asgeir Thor Eiriksson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chelsio Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Efficient congestion control in a packet switched network is facilitated between at least one source and at least one destination. The source organizes known destinations, at above the link layer, into groups, each group containing one or more destinations. The group for each source packet may be identifiable by data natively present in the packet header. In some example, the source assigns an arbitrary identification to each group, and the source labels packets destined to a group with the identification for that group. A network node sends 'PAUSE' packets containing at least one pause information indication back to a traffic source. The pause indication is associated with at least one group identification used by the source. The source reacts to the pause request by stopping or resuming packet transmission to the at least one group identification. Transmission to other destination groups is not affected.