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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2012
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Guglielmo Morandin, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one implementation, a series of nodes in a network or a fabric communicate congestion values upstream against the flow of data packets. A current node determines average data intensity for each of a set of outputs. The average data intensity is based on recent data packet transmissions respectively to each of the set of outputs. The current node receives an output congestion value from each of the set of outputs and calculates an effective congestion value for each of the plurality of outputs as a function of the output congestion value and the average data intensity. The current node performs a comparison of the effective congestion values for the plurality of outputs and selects an output based on the comparison.