System and method for monitoring interlayer devices and optimizing network performance
AssigneeCenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
InventorRobert J. Morrill
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for monitoring and optimizing interlayer network performance that includes determining at the data link layer of a network device whether there is degradation in transmission performance over at least one link in the network using network performance information data and if so, the system and method communicates from data link layer of the network device to a second layer of the network device information regarding the degradation in transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network. The system and method optimizes, at the second layer of the network device, network performance to overcome the degradation in the transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network.
Claims20
A method for monitoring and optimizing interlayer network performance comprising:
- receiving a data packet that includes network performance information data indicative of network transmission characteristics at a data link layer (Layer 2) of a network device;
- determining at the data link layer of the network device whether there is degradation in transmission performance over at least one link in the network using the network performance information data;
- responsive to a determination at the data link layer of the network device that there is degradation in transmission performance over at least one link in the network, communicating from data link layer of the network device to a second layer of the network device information regarding the degradation in transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network;
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- in response to the second layer of the network device receiving said information regarding the degradation in transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network from the data link layer of the device, optimizing, at the second layer of the network device, network performance to overcome the degradation in the transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network.
A system for monitoring and optimizing interlayer network performance comprising:
- a network device configured to communicate using a data link layer, a physical layer, a network layer, a transport layer, a session layer, a presentation layer, and an application layer, the network device configured to:
- receiving a data packet that includes network performance information data indicative of network transmission characteristics at the data link layer (Layer 2) of the network device;
- determining at the data link layer of the network device whether there is degradation in transmission performance over at least one link in the network using the network performance information data;
- responsive to a determination at the data link layer of the network device that there is degradation in transmission performance over at least one link in the network, communicating from data link layer of the network device to a second layer of the network device information regarding the degradation in transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network;
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- in response to the second layer of the network device receiving said information regarding the degradation in transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network from the data link layer of the device, optimizing, at the second layer of the network device, network performance to overcome the degradation in the transmission performance associated with the at least one link in the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.