METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONSOLIDATION OF PREFERENTIAL RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS

摘要

First and second quality of service translators (206, 210) receive resource constraint inputs from source (202) and destination (204) users respectively. The translators (206, 210) each produce a requested and acceptable resource constraint set that are merged in a quality of service consolidator (208). An acceptable path between the source and destination is selected by a routing function unit (212) receiving input from the quality of service consolidator (208). Resources along the acceptable path are then allocated by a network resource allocator (214) coupled to the routing function unit (212). The merge scheme is particularly useful in consolidation of preferential resource constraints in ATM cell relay networks, especially LANS and WANS.