BROWSE
Detail
Registered MICRO-FLOW MANAGEMENT
- Inventors
- Lawrence G. Roberts
- Application No.
- 09552278 (2000.04.19)
- Publication No.
- 20020057699 (2002.05.16)
- Registration No.
- 6574195 (2003.06.03)
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Abstract
- New switching technology relies upon state information for providing a previously unavailable degree of quality of service. In particular, by providing the ability to give service guarantees to uniquely identifiable sets of packets ("micro-flows"), different qualities of service can be offered for each transmission. The QoS associated with each micro-flow is characterized by a set of descriptors. These descriptors are communicated to each switch by the first packet of the micro-flow associated with the descriptors.