Patent ID: 6389017
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a network for transmitting data between source and destination nodes, with the network including multiple hubs, each having a plurality of I/O ports for coupling communication links together, with the network transmitting data as packets having a destination address and a data section, with a plurality of the communication links being pipe links that together form a pipe between a pair of hubs to increase bandwidth between the hubs, a system for scheduling the pipe links, said system comprising:a plurality of destination registers corresponding to the pipe links, each destination register for storing a destination of the last packet that used the pipe link corresponding to the destination register; and a scheduling controller, coupled to said plurality of destination registers, for determining the pipe link on which to transmit a received packet, with the scheduling controller for checking the destination registers and, if the destination stored in a particular destination register is the same as the destination address of the received packet then transmitting the packet on the pipe link corresponding to the particular destination register.