公开(公告)号：US07245635B2

公开(公告)日：2007-07-17

申请号：US09979000

申请日：2001-10-15

申请人： Li Mo ,  James A. Spallin ,  Jennifer J. Liu ,  Abinder S. Dhillon ,  James H. Buchanan ,  Badarinath Devalla

发明人： Li Mo ,  James A. Spallin ,  Jennifer J. Liu ,  Abinder S. Dhillon ,  James H. Buchanan ,  Badarinath Devalla

IPC分类号： H04J3/17 ,  H04J1/16 ,  H04J3/14

CPC分类号： H04L43/0876

摘要： A method for allocating and resizing a link on a communication medium is provided. The utilization of an allocated link is monitored and an unused bandwidth thereof is determined. Upon request for allocation of a second link, at least a portion of the unused bandwidth is included in the bandwidth of the second link allocated. A network including two nodes and a communication medium terminated thereby is operable to provide a plurality of communication links and is operable to resize the bandwidth of the allocated links is provided. The network is operable to monitor the utilization of an allocated bandwidth of an allocated link and deallocate a part of the allocated bandwidth that is non-utilized by the allocated link. The deallocated bandwidth, or a portion thereof, may then be included in a bandwidth allocation made for allocation of an additional link.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于在通信介质上分配和调整链路大小的方法。 监视分配的链路的使用，并确定其未使用的带宽。 在请求分配第二链路时，至少一部分未使用的带宽被包括在分配的第二链路的带宽中。 包括两个节点和由此终止的通信介质的网络可操作以提供多个通信链路，并且可用于调整分配的链路的带宽的大小。 网络可操作以监视所分配的链路的分配带宽的利用率，并释放所分配的链路未被利用的分配带宽的一部分。 解除分配的带宽或其一部分然后可以被包括在用于分配附加链路的带宽分配中。