Relay apparatus and buffer control method
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorKazuto NISHIMURA
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Abstract
A relay apparatus that transfers data with an identifier corresponding to a transfer rate attached thereto and stores data as a transfer target to adjust the transfer rate, the relay apparatus includes multiple buffers that are respectively associated with multiple time regions that serve as targets to be successively read from a current point of time onward, each buffer having a capacity to store an amount of data determined in accordance with the transfer rate of the identifier, and a controller that reduces a size of a buffer corresponding to a second time region to be smaller than a size of a buffer corresponding to a first time region prior to the second time region in accordance with a time difference between the current point of time and the second time region.
Claims16
A relay apparatus that transfers data with an identifier corresponding to a transfer rate attached thereto and stores data as a transfer target to adjust the transfer rate, the relay apparatus comprising:
- multiple buffers that are respectively associated with multiple time regions that serve as targets to be successively read from a current point of time onward, each buffer having a capacity to store an amount of data determined in accordance with the transfer rate of the identifier;
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- a controller that reduces a size of a buffer corresponding to a second time region to be smaller than a size of a buffer corresponding to a first time region prior to the second time region in accordance with a time difference between the current point of time and the second time region.
A method for controlling a buffer to be executed by a relay apparatus that transfers data with an identifier corresponding to a transfer rate attached thereto and stores data as a transfer target to adjust the transfer rate, the relay apparatus including multiple buffers that are respectively associated with multiple time regions that serve as targets to be successively read from a current point of time onward, each buffer having a capacity to store an amount of data determined in accordance with the transfer rate of the identifier, the method comprising
- controlling reducing a size of a buffer corresponding to a second time region to be smaller than a size of a buffer corresponding to a first time region prior to the second time region in accordance with a time difference between the current point of time and the second time region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.