Patent ID: 6018517
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A renegotiation process carried out during a communication on an ATM network for determining the parameters of a traffic contract relative to said communication, said process consisting of the steps of:a) carrying out a learning phase for finding a predictor and determining a characteristic of said predictor on a basis of information about the traffic that feeds a file and of a maximum length of said file calculated as a function of the output rate of said file;b) predicting responsive to said predictor a predetermined period of time between two successive renegotiations, said period of time having a maximum length that is required for a virtual file to reach if fed by the traffic of said communication for at least one give thruput rate of said file,c) deducing in response to said maximum at least one new parameter for the traffic contract, andd) renegotiating with the network on a basis of said at least one parameter for said period of time.