Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1986-12-31
1988-09-06
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 94, H04J 326
Patent
active
047698110
ABSTRACT:
A method for controlling congestion in a packet switching network uses a packet dropping algorithm to determine when to drop a marked packet wherever the network is congested at any point along the path being traversed by the marked packet.
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Eckberg, Jr. Adrian E.
Luan Daniel T.
Lucantoni David M.
Schonfeld Tibor J.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company AT&T Bell Laboratories
Havill Richard B.
Marcelo Melvin
Olms Douglas W.
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