Patent ID: 9565125
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: identifying a subplurality of traffic identifier (TID) queues associated with a multicast packet; converting the multicast packet into a multicast-to-unicast converted unicast packet for the subplurality of TID queues; enqueueing the multicast-to-unicast converted unicast packet in available TID queues of the subplurality of TID queues, wherein availability of the subplurality of TID queues is based on an amount of unused space in each TID queue of the subplurality of TID queues; dequeueing the multicast-to-unicast converted unicast packet from a TID queue of the available TID queues according to a token bucket checking cycle applied to the subplurality of TID queues; transmitting the multicast-to-unicast converted unicast packet to a destination.