US 2017/0272259 A1 · DATA COMMUNICATION

Abstract

Systems and methods utilizing a packet gate to improve communication performance with respect to a resource shared for data communication are disclosed. In embodiments, a packet gate is utilized with respect to a shared resource to improve the effective throughput and reduce packet losses with respect to a plurality of data flows sharing the resource. In operation of embodiments, data packets are dissembled into chunks and encoded, such as using forward error correction, for transmission through a switching fabric, wherein at the egress of the switching fabric the packet gate tracks the number of chunks of a packet that has been received and when a sufficient number of chunks are received drops all subsequent chunks of that packet. The admitted encoded chunks are passed through the shared resource, wherein the chunks are decoded and reassembled into the packet at the output of the shared resource of embodiments.

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Dependent claims

A method for data communication, the method comprising:

monitoring, by a packet gate coupled to an input of a shared resource, a number of chunks of a data packet received at the packet gate;
passing, by the packet gate, the chunks on to the shared resource until a specified number of chunks of the data packet are passed on to provide recovery of the data packet from the passed chunks, wherein the shared resource comprises a resource shared by a plurality of data flows, and wherein the data packet comprises a data packet of a first data flow of the plurality of data flows;
and
dropping, by the packet gate, all chunks of the data packet after the specified number of chunks of the data packet are passed on to provide recovery of the data packet from the passed chunks.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code recorded thereon, the program code comprising:

program code for causing a computer to:
monitor, by a packet gate coupled to an input of a shared resource, a number of chunks of a data packet received at the packet gate;
pass, by the packet gate, the chunks on to the shared resource until a specified number of chunks of the data packet are passed on to provide recovery of the data packet from the passed chunks, wherein the shared resource comprises a resource shared by a plurality of data flows, and wherein the data packet comprises a data packet of a first data flow of the plurality of data flows;
and
drop, by the packet gate, all chunks of the data packet after the specified number of chunks of the data packet are passed on to provide recovery of the data packet from the passed chunks.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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