Method and apparatus for traffic shaping

Details Method and apparatus for traffic shaping Method and apparatus for traffic shaping

2006-10-18

2010-11-09

Jain, Raj (Department: 2472)

Multiplex communications

Data flow congestion prevention or control

Control of data admission to the network

C370S230000, C370S231000, C370S235000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07830796

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for a traffic shaper that uses a traffic shaping algorithm based on a sustained rate token bucket and a constant rate emitter. The sustained rate token bucket uses a plurality of tokens based on the sustained rate and the sustained burst size. The constant rate emitter allows transmission of traffic at an adjusted transmission rate, where the adjusted transmission rate is derived from the peak rate, peak burst size, sustained rate and sustained burst size.

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