Patent ID: 9246829
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: estimating a rate at which packets associated with a queue of packets are dequeued from a buffer; estimating a current queuing latency, the current queuing latency being associated with the queue of packets maintained in the buffer; and calculating a current drop probability, the current drop probability being associated with a probability that packets associated with the queue of packets will be dropped, wherein the current drop probability is calculated using the current queuing latency, and wherein calculating the current drop probability includes identifying a first control parameter, identifying a second control parameter, scaling a first factor associated with the current queuing latency and a target queuing latency using the first control parameter to obtain a first value, multiplying a second factor associated with the current queuing latency and a previous queuing latency using the second control parameter to obtain a second value, and adding the first value to the second value to determine the current drop probability.