Patent ID: 8526452
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of self-clocked fair queuing with a committed information rate for a satellite communication system, the method comprising: identifying a first set of packets among a plurality of received packets for a first queue of a plurality of queues; identifying a receiving rate associated with the first set of packets; associating a first designation with each packet of the first set of packets when the receiving rate is less than or equal to the committed information rate; associating the first designation with each packet from at least a first subset of the first set of packets and a second designation with each packet from at least a second subset of the first set of packets when the receiving rate is greater than the committed information rate; associating the first designation with a first weight and the second designation with a second weight; assigning virtual departure times to respective packets from the first set of packets based on the respective weight associated with the respective designation associated with each respective packet such that packets associated with the first designation are assigned virtual departure times with earlier virtual departure times than packets associated with the second designation; and transmitting the respective packets based on their respective virtual departure times.