Patent ID: 6151696
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A method for determining the capacities of communication links connecting recipients to a source, comprising:(A) determining which recipients are connected to the source by the communication links;(B) transmitting frames of data from the source to the recipients determined in step (A) at a predetermined rate over the communication links;(C) receiving acknowledgments from the recipients determined in step (A), the acknowledgments including indications of frames requiring retransmission;(D) storing, at the source, the acknowledgments and the predetermined rate;(E) repeating steps (B), (C), (D), and (E) for a different predetermined rate until steps (B), (C), (D), and (E) have been repeated a predetermined number of times; and(F) determining capacity of one or more of the communication links from information stored at the source.