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AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
InventorsGanish Katyal, André GODIN, Edoardo GAVITA
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A node in home network serves as a coordinator to coordinate the use of bandwidth by clients that voluntarily cooperate with one another to share bandwidth on different network connections. Specifically, the coordinator maintains information for these network connections that logically represents the different connections as independent pools of usable bandwidth. This bandwidth information also indicates the amount of bandwidth available for use from each pool. The coordinator receives advertisements from clients advertising tentative use of a specified amount of bandwidth drawn from each of one or more pools. Responsive to these advertisements, the coordinator notifies clients regarding whether or not, according to the bandwidth information, the one or more pools from which their respective advertised uses would draw from each have the specified amount of bandwidth available. Finally, the coordinator independently updates each pool to indicate that any bandwidth notified as being available from that pool is now unavailable.
A method within a home network for coordinating the self-imposed cooperation amongst clients for sharing different network connections, comprising:
A node within a home network configured to coordinate the self-imposed cooperation amongst clients for sharing different network connections, comprising one or more network interfaces for communicatively coupling the node to the home network and one or more processing circuits configured to:
A method implemented by a client in a home network for self-imposed cooperation with other clients for sharing different network connections, wherein the different network connections are represented in the home network as independent pools of usable bandwidth, wherein the method comprises:
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