Patent ID: 6621825
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A method for per connection queuing of multicast transmissions, comprising:receiving a cell associated with a multicast transmission; queuing the cell in a next available cell buffer of a root queue that is associated with the multicast transmission; determining whether a predetermined number of leaf queues associated with the multicast transmission are empty when the queuing of the cell commences; when there are at least the predetermined number of the leaf queues that are empty when the queuing of the cell commences, queuing the leaf queues that are empty into an update queue; and updating at least some of the leaf queues that are empty with a head pointer corresponding to the cell in the root queue, wherein the updating is performed based on dequeuing of the leaf queues from the update queue subsequent to the queuing of the cell.