Patent ID: 8477624
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program stored on a tangible storage device, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: estimate traffic of a plurality of peer computers over a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network by monitoring at each peer computer a response time of the network to each request made to the network by the peer computer, wherein each peer computer is a diskless computer and accesses a hard disk drive in a storage area network through the network and the network bandwidth utilization is measured in relation to a maximum utilization for the network; detect traffic exceeding a traffic threshold for the network; and delay issuing each TCP/IP acknowledge signal for a specified delay interval in response to both detecting the traffic exceeding the traffic threshold and a request from a first peer computer for additional bandwidth.