Patent ID: 8773991
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A bandwidth control method performed by a gateway, comprising: establishing a network connection to a remote apparatus, the remote apparatus being allocated with a downlink bandwidth for servicing the gateway; receiving a plurality of downlink packets; in response to reception of the downlink packets, transmitting a plurality of uplink packets to the remote apparatus, so as to allow the remote apparatus to transmit more downlink packets to the gateway after the remote apparatus acknowledges reception of the uplink packets; and limiting a transmission rate of the uplink packets within an uplink threshold so that that a transmission rate of the downlink packets is smaller than the downlink bandwidth allocated to the remote apparatus; wherein, the uplink threshold is determined according to the downlink bandwidth, a first predetermined value, and a second predetermined value, the first predetermined value represents an average data size of the downlink packets which are response to the uplink packets, and the second predetermined value represents a maximum data size of an uplink acknowledgement packet of the uplink packets.