Apparatus and method for controlling buffering of an arrival packet
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsKazuto NISHIMURA, Hiroshi TOMONAGA, Akihiro HATA, Masamichi KASA
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Abstract
An apparatus for controlling buffering of an arrival packet. The apparatus includes a packet buffer for temporarily storing each of one or more packets to be transmitted in association with an arrival time thereof, and a packet discard section for determining an arrival packet to be discarded or to be stored in the packet buffer, based on a discard condition defined by using a packet residence time that is calculated on the basis of one or more residence times of one or more packets staying in the packet buffer, wherein the arrival packet is defined as a packet that has newly arrived at the apparatus.
Claims18
An apparatus, comprising:
- a packet buffer for temporarily storing each of one or more packets to be transmitted in association with an arrival time thereof;
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- a packet discard section for determining an arrival packet, defined as a packet that has newly arrived at the apparatus, to be discarded or to be stored in the packet buffer, based on a discard condition defined by using a packet residence time that is calculated on the basis of one or more residence times of the one or more packets staying in the packet buffer.
A method for controlling buffering of an arrival packet, comprising:
- providing a packet buffer for temporarily storing each of one or more packets to be transmitted in association with an arrival time thereof;
- and
- determining an arrival packet, defined as a packet that has newly arrived at the apparatus, to be discarded or to be stored in the packet buffer, based on a discard condition defined by using a packet residence time that is calculated on the basis of one or more residence times of one or more packets staying in the packet buffer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.