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US 7,626,988 B2Granted
Latency-based scheduling and dropping
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorsLarry R. Dennison, Derek Chiou
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Abstract
In scheduling a packet, latency requirements of the packet is determined. The packet is then scheduled according to its latency requirements. Queues may be assigned latency ranges and packets are assigned to the queues according to those ranges. Within ranges, queues of different priorities may be provided.
Claims8
A method of scheduling packets in a communication system, the method comprising:
- determining latency requirements of a packet using a router;
- and
- assigning the packet, based on its latency requirements, to one of plural queues having different assigned time ranges using the router.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.