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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2005
Richa Malhotra, Enschede, NL;
Richa Malhotra, Enschede, NL;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method of controlling data flow in a network includes detecting a congestion condition in the network, sending a congestion message to one or more nodes upstream of the congestion condition, learning address information of one or more nodes pertaining to the congestion condition, sending another congestion message containing these learned MAC addresses and, via the nodes receiving the congestion message with the MAC addresses, controlling a flow of data associated with the learned address information from the congestion message. The learned address information may be the MAC address of a destination node to which the data is flowing towards or a MAC address pair of the nodes between which the data is flowing.