公开(公告)号：US20150124619A1

公开(公告)日：2015-05-07

申请号：US14304676

申请日：2014-06-13

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Davide BERGAMASCO ,  Andrea BALDINI ,  Valentina ALARIA ,  Flavio BONOMI ,  Rong PAN

IPC: H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/835 ,  H04L12/825 ,  H04L12/801

CPC classification number: H04L43/0882 ,  H04L43/062 ,  H04L47/10 ,  H04L47/11 ,  H04L47/263 ,  H04L47/30

Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods and devices for managing network congestion. Preferred implementations of the invention allow congestion to be pushed from congestion points in the core of a network to reaction points, which may be edge devices, host devices or components thereof. Preferably, rate limiters shape individual flows of the reaction points that are causing congestion. Parameters of these rate limiters are preferably tuned based on feedback from congestion points, e.g., in the form of backward congestion notification (“BCN”) messages. In some implementations, such BCN messages include congestion change information and at least one instantaneous measure of congestion. The instantaneous measure(s) of congestion may be relative to a threshold of a particular queue and/or relative to a threshold of a buffer that includes a plurality of queues.

Abstract translation: 本发明提供了用于管理网络拥塞的改进的方法和设备。 本发明的优选实现允许将拥塞从网络核心中的拥塞点推送到可以是边缘设备，主机设备或其组件的反应点。 优选地，速率限制器形成引起堵塞的反应点的各个流。 这些速率限制器的参数优选地基于来自拥塞点的反馈来调整，例如以后向拥塞通知（“BCN”）消息的形式。 在一些实现中，这样的BCN消息包括拥塞变化信息和至少一个拥塞的瞬时测量。 拥塞的瞬时测量可以是相对于特定队列的阈值和/或相对于包括多个队列的缓冲器的阈值。