Patent ID: 8958302
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a controller to control a data flow of a stream of data from a first device to a second device over a wireless communication link, the stream of data including data to be delivered to a plurality of endpoints, said controller is to provide to said first device a plurality of credit allocations corresponding to said plurality of endpoints, said controller is to determine a credit allocation corresponding to an endpoint, based at least on an estimated link delay of said wireless communication link and an estimated delivery rate of delivering data from a buffer of said second device to said endpoint, wherein said controller is to determine said credit allocation based on said estimated link delay and said estimated delivery rate, in response to receipt of a request message from said first device at said second device, the request message indicating a data size of data for said endpoint to be transmitted over said wireless communication link, said data size is greater than a free portion of said buffer.