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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsMohammad Saifee Dohadwala, Michael K. Papamichael
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Innovations in packet scheduling, which allow a scheduling mechanism to approximate fine-grained rate adjustments and cycle-granularity inter-packet spacing for packets of a flow, are described herein. For example, in an iteration of a scheduler loop, a sender determines whether a proximity condition is satisfied for the next packet of a flow. The proximity condition depends at least in part on how long a target next send time is after a current time. The next packet is scheduled for transmission if the next packet is due or if the proximity condition is satisfied for the next packet. When the next packet is scheduled for transmission, the sender sends the next packet and updates the target next send time based at least in part on a target transmission rate.
In a computer system, a method of packet scheduling, the method comprising, in an iteration of a scheduler loop:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for causing one or more processing units, when programmed thereby, to perform operations for packet scheduling, the operations comprising:
A computer system comprising one or more processing units, memory, and a network interface device, the network interface device being configured to perform operations for packet scheduling, the operations comprising:
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