Patent ID: 11863451
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A method comprising:
marking, at a device, a first packet to include a request for network state information;
transmitting, at the device, the marked first packet;
receiving, at the device, a second packet including one or more temporal congestion signals; and
adjusting, at the device, a control flow rate based at least in part on the one or more temporal congestion signals included in the second packet, wherein:
adjusting a control flow rate comprises adjusting a congestion window size based at least in part on the one or more temporal congestion signals included in the second packet; and
the one or more temporal congestion signals includes a line busyness signal and wherein adjusting a congestion window size based at least in part on the one or more temporal congestion signals included in the second packet comprises:
calculating a decrease factor based on the line busyness signal and a minimum line busyness signal; and
adjusting the congestion window size based on the decrease factor.