UNIFIED ALGORITHM FOR FRAME SCHEDULING AND BUFFER MANAGEMENT IN DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES NETWORKS

摘要

A frame transmission and discard architecture 100 is provided in a differentiated service network environment. The architecture 100 includes discard logic 102 that discards one frame from the received frame stream 104 of the network environment in accordance with the discard algorithm, And is discarded when it reaches a predetermined backlog limit of the queue associated with that frame. There is also provided scheduling logic 118 for scheduling the order of transmitting one or more queued frames of the network environment.