Packet exchanging device, transmission apparatus, and packet scheduling method

Abstract

A packet exchanging device includes queues each configured to accumulate one or more packets, a scheduler unit configured to give a certain permissible reading amount indicating amounts of data of readable packets to each of the queues, and a reading processing unit configured to read the one or more packets from the queues by the permissible reading amount in an order in which a reading condition regarding the permissible reading amount for each queue and an amount of data in the one or more packets accumulated in each queue is satisfied.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.