Patent ID: 9043509
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: retrieving from memory in a network device a characteristic of message traffic to be transmitted, and determining with circuitry a traffic latency requirement of traffic to be communicated along a network path comprising an Ethernet link, the traffic latency requirement being a maximum delivery delay time through the network path for delivery of the message traffic; determining based on the traffic latency requirement a maximum Ethernet frame size for the traffic; reserving with the circuitry a network resource in at least one of a plurality of other network devices along said network path for said maximum Ethernet frame size of said traffic to be communicated by said network device to said at least one of said plurality of other network devices along said network path, said reserving being based on the traffic latency requirement and includes sending a reservation request and receiving an acknowledgment from the at least one of the plurality of other network devices along said network path that the at least one of the plurality of other network devices can comply with the maximum Ethernet frame size of the traffic; and transmitting one or more messages indicating said maximum Ethernet frame size to said plurality of other network devices along said network path.