Distributed admission control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9178787-B2
Application number	US-201314092332-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2013
Priority date	Apr 16, 2003
Publication date	Nov 3, 2015
Grant date	Nov 3, 2015

Abstract

A first network client requests initiation of a data transfer with a second network client. An admission control facility (ACF) responds to the initiation request by performing admission analysis to determine whether to initiate the data transfer. The ACF sends one or more packets to the second network client. In response, the second network client sends acknowledgment packets back to the ACF. The ACF performs admission analysis based on the packets sent and the acknowledgment packets, and determines whether the data transfer should be initiated based on the analysis. The admission analysis may be based on a variety of factors, such as the average time to receive an acknowledgment for each packet, the variance of the time to receive an acknowledgment for each packet, a combination of these factors, or a combination of these and other factors.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a network device, a request to initiate a data transfer;
transmitting, by the network device, one or more packets on one or more paths;
analyzing, by the network device, information identifying packet loss associated with at least one of the one or more packets;
transmitting, by the network device, one or more additional packets on the one or more paths based on analyzing the information identifying packet loss associ…

Assignees

• Juniper Networks Inc

Inventors

• Sindhu Pradeep

Classifications

• H04L47/70

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• H04L43/0852 Primary

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• H04L47/726 Primary

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• H04L12/5695

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/783

  Electricity · mapped topic