Patent ID: 7773509

Claim:
A method for providing Quality of Service (QoS) within a network including devices, comprising: employing a processor for: obtaining parameterized traffic information from a receiver device on a network; and performing traffic management by traffic stream admission and traffic control in the network, based on the parameterized traffic information including Real-Time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Reports (RTCP XR) from devices in the network, wherein performing traffic management includes providing traffic feedback based on the RTCP XR, wherein the traffic feedback enables a sender to control data transmission rate from the sender into the network, wherein the traffic feedback is based on calculating average payload data rate and average packet rate over an interval using RTCP XR, calculating a throughput available, and providing the results of the calculations as traffic feedback, wherein the sender is configured to control its rate of data transmission into the network by modifying its transmissions based on the traffic feedback.