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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Robert John Briscoe, London, GB;
Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for signalling congestion being caused by data items such as packets, received at a network element such as a router, in a communications network such as the Internet, or being caused by items otherwise requiring service or capacity from a shared resource. Preferred embodiments of the method involve identifying whether or not received data items received at a network element are capable of carrying congestion indications such as ECN marks, and for those that are capable, assigning congestion indications to the data items in dependence on a queue length characterization based on a substantially current, instantaneous measurement of the length of the queue, whereas for those that are not capable, a sanction such as dropping may be applied in dependence on a different queue length characterization based on a weighted moving average of current, recent, and less recent measurements of the length of the queue.