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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2014
Viasat, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Kristi Jaska, Encinitas, CA (US);
James Esserman, La Jolla, CA (US);
ViaSat Inc., Carlsbed, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described for source-aware shaping of network traffic in a communications system. Embodiments can manage resource congestion within a communications network by preferentially adjusting certain types of traffic on a per-subscriber and/or per-application basis. For example, a subscriber can receive various types of traffic in respective streams, and the streams can be identified according to whether they carry adaptive traffic. When a congestion condition is detected, one or more of the identified streams can be squeezed or expanded, which can cause an associated content source to automatically adapt communication of the adaptive traffic (e.g., its quality) to the reduced or expanded capacity. Selectively squeezing those streams identified as adaptive can appreciably mitigate congestion, while maintaining a desired level of network performance for the subscriber.