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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2012
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ganga Sudharshini Devadas, Milpitas, CA (US);
Dennis Khoa Dang Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Chih-Tsung Huang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Presented herein are techniques for detection and characterization of buffer occupancy of a buffer in a network device. Packets are received at a network device. The packets are stored in a buffer of the network device as they are processed by the network device. An occupancy level of the buffer is sampled at a sampling rate. Occupancy levels of the buffer over time are determined from the sampling, and traffic flow through the network device is characterized based on the occupancy levels.