Patent ID: 9191334
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for improving the quality of data transmission in a packet-based communication network comprising a plurality of network nodes, wherein each network node of the plurality of network nodes has a plurality of ports, each port of the plurality of ports being associated with at least one queue with which a communication connection to another network node of the plurality of network nodes is producible, the method comprising: monitoring at least the queues of ports of the plurality of ports that are disposed in the network nodes along communication paths that are formed in the communication network for queue length; determining a degree of overload for the ports from the queue length; and establishing an alternative communication path for at least one runtime delay-critical, delay variation-critical, or runtime delay-critical and delay variation-critical communication path of the communication paths that is routed via an overloaded port when the degree of overload exceeds a predefined threshold value, the established alternative communication path bypassing the overloaded port.