Patent ID: 8018925

Claim:
A Long Term Evolution switch-router scheduler for carrying multi-rate traffic comprising: a first stage comprising: a first stage input configured to receive class C and class D elastic traffic; a first stage queue coupled to the first stage input; a first stage General Processor Sharing, Weighted Fair Queuing scheduler coupled to the first stage queue; and a first stage output coupled to the first stage scheduler; and a second stage comprising: a second stage input coupled to the first stage output configured to receive scheduled elastic traffic output from the first stage, receive real-time streaming class A and class B traffic, and combine the received scheduled elastic traffic with the received real-time streaming traffic; a second stage queue coupled to the second stage input; a second stage K Priority Queue scheduler coupled to the second stage queue; and a second stage output coupled to the second stage scheduler configured to forward all scheduled class A, class B, class C and class D traffic to a transport layer physical link.