MECHANISM FOR IDENTIFYING AND PENALIZING MISBEHAVING FLOWS IN A NETWORK

摘要

A mechanism for identifying and penalizing misbehaving flows comprising the steps of: maintaining a set of behavioral statistics for each flow (302), updating the behavioral statistics as information packets belonging to a flow are processed, determining whether a flow is exhibiting undesirable behavior based upon these behavioral statistics (304), enforcing penalty on the flow if the flow is exhibiting undesirable behavior (306), wherein this penalty causes packets belonging to the flow to have a higher probability of being dropped than packets belonging to other flows that do not exhibit undesirable behavior, and wherein this penalty also has the effect of correcting the flow's behavior such that the flow exhibits less undesirable behavior after the penalty than before.