Patent ID: 6633585
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method within a telecommunications network for allocating available bandwidth among a plurality of sessions that share a common data link, each of said sessions having a source node that transmits data to a destination node through said data link, said method comprising the steps of:designating a repeating unit time interval for conducting said plurality of sessions; monitoring an input flow rate from the source node of each of said sessions into said common data link; assigning a target flow rate to each of said sessions, wherein the sum of said target flow rates is equal to the available bandwidth of said common data link; comparing monitored input flow rate of each said sessions with assigned target flow rate; for each of said sessions in which said monitored input flow rate exceeds said assigned target flow rate, dynamically pausing said source node during each repeating unit time interval, such that for each of said sessions, said monitored input flow rate conforms to said assigned target flow rate.