METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY COMPUTER MEANS OF A COMMUNICATING ENTITY IN A PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORK, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSIENT RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF, AND COMMUNICATING ENTITY OF A PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to transmission of communication signal frames by a communicating entity in a packet-switched network, the communicating entity comprising an egress port for transmitting communication signal frames. The frames comprise a first type of frames, intended to be transmitted in a plurality of bursts for which a traffic shaping is defined as an express traffic, and a second type of frames, for which no traffic shaping is defined, as a sporadic traffic. The communicating entity is configured for storing a plurality of first queues of frames of the first type, associated respectively to the aforesaid plurality of bursts, and at least one second queue for frames of the second type. The bursts are stored in respective first queues with a signaling frame preceding each burst, and this signaling frame comprises a timestamp of generation of said burst. Then, for selecting a first burst to transmit among the bursts stored in said first queues, the communicating entity is configured for: - Reading the timestamp of each signaling frame located at a head of each first queues, - Determining among all the signaling frames the one having the most ancient timestamp, and - Select the burst having the thus determined signaling frame as the first burst to transmit.