System for effective allocation of network-wide bandwidth

Details System for effective allocation of network-wide bandwidth System for effective allocation of network-wide bandwidth

1995-06-21

1996-08-20

Olms, Douglas W.

Multiplex communications

Wide area network

Packet switching

H04L 122

Patent

active

055485790

ABSTRACT:
To address Quality of Service (QoS) requirements in a domain of Local Area Networks(LANs) interconnected by at least one FDDI segment, network-wide bandwidth allocation is improved by a high availability Third Party Requestor (3PR) agent. The 3PR receives from the QoS Allocator all information that it needs to ask for bandwidth reservation on the FDDI segment. Following a Station Management standard, the 3PR is able to act on behalf of an FDDI station that will submit synchronous traffic and ask for bandwidth allocation to a Synchronous Bandwidth Allocator (SBA). According to the SBA decision, the 3PR will then answer to the network-centralized QoS Allocator which will grant or deny the allocation over the whole path within the LAN domain. If for some reason, the acting SBA function moves to another station, the 3PR at the new station will become active.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5136581 (1992-08-01), Myehycke
patent: 5461611 (1995-10-01), Drake, Jr. et al.
patent: 5479404 (1995-12-01), Francois et al.

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