799 results about "Bandwidth utilization" patented technology

Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating the configuration of parameters controlling utilization of a network resource. In one embodiment, the present invention allows a network administrator to quickly and easily configure effective bandwidth utilization controls and observe the results of applying them. According to one embodiment, a network administrator is presented with an interface displaying the most significant traffic types with respect to a bandwidth utilization or other network statistic and allowing for the association of bandwidth utilization controls to these traffic types.

The present invention is directed to a call admission controller that is operable to: (a) determine at least one of (i) a bandwidth utilization level for a first path including a first link; (ii) an available bandwidth level for the first path; and (iii) one or more Quality of Service or QoS metrics for the first path; (b) compare the at least one of (i) a bandwidth utilization level; (ii) an available bandwidth level; and (iii) one or more Quality of Service or QoS metrics to one or more selected thresholds to determine whether a new live voice communication may be set up with a first selected codec; and (iii) when a new live voice communication may not be set up with the first selected codec, perform at least one of the following operations: (i) select a second different codec from among a plurality of possible codecs for the new live voice communication, wherein the second codec has a lower bit rate than the first codec; (ii) change an existing live voice communication from the first codec to the second codec; and (iii) redirect the new live voice communication from the first path to a second different path, wherein the second path does not include the first link.

A feature-rich transport multiplexer and a number of associated methods, systems, subsystems, software features, graphical user interfaces and control systems are disclosed. The disclosure includes GUI's that enable operators to easily monitor and manipulate content streams flowing through a transport multiplexer in real-time. The disclosed interfaces include screens that supply operators with identity, structure, configuration, bandwidth utilization and/or status information for system hardware and software. The disclosed features also provide computer assisted routing configuration for present and future routing events through simple manipulation, such as drag and drop operations, of graphical objects. Routing control is further simplified by permitting operators to configure routing control of individual content stream components as well as groups of such components simultaneously. Further flexibility is permitted by predetermination of future routing events, thereby enabling the automatic execution of configuration changes at a future time. Various types of content, such as video, audio, IP data can be manipulated to achieve various results such as one or more multiplexed MPEG data streams.

Disclosed is a method of maximizing the utilization of currently available network path bandwidth by TCP transmissions. Embodiments of the present invention allow to automatically detect and utilize a larger portion of the currently available bandwidth (or even the entire bandwidth) for every specific connection and network path that utilizes the invention. Furthermore, some embodiments of the present invention provide that the software implementing the technology may be running only at the data sender side and may communicate with a standard receiver. According to embodiments of the present invention, the software implementing the invention may be placed between a TCP/IP protocol driver and a Network Interface driver. Such intermediate software may hide the real network state from TCP/IP driver and shift the TCP connection SWND edge by means of Preemptive Spoof Data Acknowledgment and Packet Loss Concealment.

The invention provides an adaptive frequency hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) transmission system and method, which efficiently utilizes available transmission bandwidth, whilst providing robustness to jamming techniques in wireless communication systems. The proposed technique operates by transmitting a wide-band signal over multiple, single-carrier, parallel transmission subbands, which may occupy non-contiguous frequency regions. The proposed scheme exhibits significant gain in error rate performance, as compared to a data rate equivalent single-subband system in the presence of signal jamming and/or interference without a reduction in the transmission data rate nor an increase in transmitter power. In addition, the proposed system and method are adaptive and enable more efficient use of the available bandwidth for communicating, thus increasing the overall bandwidth utilization of the system.

The invention provides a dynamic flow dispatch method and system based on a software definition network. The method comprises a step of carrying out deep analysis of flow through flow information uploaded by a switch, and classifying flow types by a flow identification and grading module according to priorities, a step of calling a statistic management module to obtain information of switch ports, calculating joint links of the switch, and sending information of the joint links to a topology management module, a step of calling the topology management module to obtain a feasible path for flow direction and calculating real-time sate statistic information of the feasible path, and a step of analyzing features of the joint links to calculate weight of the joint links in the overall selection, working out the optimal dispatch strategy based on the weight and giving out the optimal dispatch strategy. The invention can achieve the optimal real-time dispatch of network flow, so that flow is enabled to reach a destination in a fastest manner, and purposes of improving the bandwidth utilization rate and optimizing network performances are finally realized.

The system for managing bandwidth in a remote services system provides an infrastructure that enables a customer to control bandwidth utilization in accordance with specified network performance criteria. The architecture is broadly comprised of a bandwidth management system that operates in conjunction with aggregation Mid-level Manager and application Mid-level Managers controlled by the service provider. The customer deployment can be implemented using a single proxy or a plurality of proxies. Customer access to system resources is controlled by a service provider web-access portal controlled by the service provider.

In embodiments of the present disclosure improved capabilities are described for increasing the bandwidth in a large area broadband network where an optimization server is incorporated within the wireless network in association with the public data network gateway, which may be deployed in regional areas, thus reducing the time-latency for applications being run from a mobile cellular device. Further, by associating additional optimization servers at base stations, application functionality may be optionally transferred from the regional optimization server to the local base station optimization server in instances where a number of mobile cellular devices are requesting the same data via their access through the same cell, and in other instances, to the effect that back haul network bandwidth utilization is reduced or eliminated.

The technology disclosed enables the automatic definition of monitoring alerts for a web page across a plurality of variables such as server response time, server CPU load, network bandwidth utilization, response time from a measured client, network latency, server memory utilization, and the number of simultaneous sessions, amongst others. This is accomplished through the combination of load or resource loading and performance snapshots, where performance correlations allow for the alignment of operating variables. Performance data such as response time for the objects retrieved, number of hits per second, number of timeouts per sec, and errors per second can be recorded and reported. This allows for the automated ranking of tens of thousands of web pages, with an analysis of the web page assets that affect performance, and the automatic alignment of performance alerts by resource participation.

A policy change management scheme for network resource management through dynamic policy adaptations especially suitable for DiffServ-enabled MPLS networks is presented. The scheme incorporates automated resource adaptation capabilities to assure QoS for user traffic and to promote resource utilization in DiffServ-enabled MPLS networks. A suite of resource management policies, an ordered set of methods for adjusting policies, and interfaces to a companion policy-based network management system are provided. The policies are periodically adjusted based on predictive bandwidth estimation algorithms ensuring optimal resource allocation to individual service classes and enabling adjustment of resources for handling current traffic and traffic expected for the near future. Resource allocations to individual service classes are adapted through policy changes when bandwidth utilization deviates from normal level or congestion exists in one or more service classes, allowing corrections to abnormal allocation of resources in incipient phases of congestion.

A device and a method for transmitting data traffic in an OTN are disclosed. First, all the time slots in the payload area of an OTN frame are allocated to sub-domains with certain bandwidth; then, the sub-domains are grouped into sub-domain groups to carry data traffic based on the bandwidth demand of various data traffic. The device and method provided in the present invention map the data directly on the OTN frame after encapsulating the data traffic so as to effectively avoid the redundant overhead and processing in the intermediate network hierarchies; and the bandwidth utilization is increased as much as possible by means of sub-domain and bandwidth allocation in the payload area of the OTN frame.

An inputting unit 10 of a channel bandwidth utilization ratio evaluating server 1 inputs various traffic parameters and transmission parameters. A packet sending-out time computing section 21 obtains a packet sending-out channel time based upon a packet size and the transmission rate. Further, a probability computing section 22 obtains a channel bandwidth utilization ratio based upon the packet sending-out channel time, a cycle time of a packet, and a communication error ratio. Further, the channel bandwidth utilization ratio evaluating server 1 evaluates the obtained channel bandwidth utilization ratio. For example, the channel bandwidth utilization ratio evaluating server 1 determines whether or not receipt of a new call is permitted based upon the obtained channel bandwidth utilization ratio. Further, the channel bandwidth utilization ratio evaluating server 1 determines an optimum control based upon the obtained channel bandwidth utilization ratio.

A storage system comprises a plurality of storage arrays configurable into a plurality of storage device groups, a plurality of controllers selectively coupled to ones of the storage arrays, a network fabric arranged as a linkage of multiple sets of associated controllers and storage devices, and a processor. The processor is capable of associating the plurality of storage device groups among controllers based on a distribution of performance demand according to controller processor utilization of the individual storage device groups and bandwidth utilization pro-ratable among storage device groups within a set.

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to monitor in a communication system bandwidth utilization by CPE, detect bandwidth utilization by the CPE that exceeds a bandwidth utilization limit, reconfigure a portion of the communication system to accommodate the increase in bandwidth utilization by the CPE, and generate a mitigation plan directed to a user of the CPE to address the increased bandwidth utilization by the CPE. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The invention provides an adaptive frequency hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) transmission system and method, which efficiently utilizes available transmission bandwidth, whilst providing robustness to jamming techniques in wireless communication systems. The proposed technique operates by transmitting a wide-band signal over multiple, single-carrier, parallel transmission subbands, which may occupy non-contiguous frequency regions. The proposed scheme exhibits significant gain in error rate performance, as compared to a data rate equivalent single-subband system in the presence of signal jamming and/or interference without a reduction in the transmission data rate nor an increase in transmitter power. In addition, the proposed system and method are adaptive and enable more efficient use of the available bandwidth for communicating, thus increasing the overall bandwidth utilization of the system.

A wireless access point and multiple wireless terminals exchange utilization, status, mobility and reception characteristics. Each wireless terminal generates reception characteristics based on transmissions received from the wireless access point and from other devices in the network. In one operating mode, the characteristics gathered by the wireless devices are forwarded to the wireless access point, and, based on all received characteristics, the wireless access point selects its own transmission power for different types of the transmission. In another mode, all characteristics are exchanged between every wireless terminal and the access point so that each can independently or cooperatively make transmission power control decisions. In a further mode, the wireless access point adjusts protocol parameters based on an assessment of the characteristics received from the client devices. The utilization, status, mobility, and reception characteristics include received signal strength, error rates, estimated battery life, availability of unlimited power, active versus sleep mode ratios, anticipated bandwidth utilization, coding schemes available, deterministic/non-deterministic requirements, encryption and security requirements, quality of service requirements, position, velocity, stationary status, etc. Gathering of such characteristics involves both retrieval of preset parameters from memory and generating parameters based on received transmissions (including test packets).

A method includes provisioning joint bandwidth in a software defined passive optical network PON based mobile backhaul MBH and cache management on base stations for video delivery across the network, the provisioning in each time unit includes grouping bandwidth utilization in the network into a first category used to support video requests which cannot directly be served by caches on base stations, the first category video requests being high priority, and if bandwidth remains after the high priority requests remaining bandwidth being used to deliver some videos that are low priority to caches.

A replicator is configured to be coupled to a first packet-based network, and a packet analysis module and a router are coupled to the replicator. The router is configured to be coupled to a second packet-based network. The replicator receives packets from the first packet-based network, passes the packets to the router, and passes a copy of the packets to the packet analysis module. The packet analysis module identifies, in a set of customers of the second packet-based network, a top usage subset. The top usage subset includes those of the customers who are using more bandwidth of the second packet-based network than other ones of the customers. The top usage subset includes at least two of the customers. The packet analysis module identifies, at an entry point of the second packet-based network, routes of packets destined for the top usage subset. The router discards a predetermined percentage of the packets destined for the top usage subset. The predetermined percentage is determined in order to reduce bandwidth utilization of the second packet-based network by a desired amount. The predetermined percentage is identical for all of the customers in the top usage subset.

Improved algorithms are provided for performing path management for a plurality of select data transmission sessions in a multicast network. The algorithms include: constructing a weighted graph which represents topology of the network; assigning load correlated costs to network links; and computing least cost paths for each of the data transmission sessions which accounts for global bandwidth utilization.

A system, method and article of manufacturing for increasing link bandwidth occupation in a high speed packet switching digital network by enabling merging the traffics provided by different source users over several network node entry ports and to be propagated throughout network paths toward a same destination network port. To that end, at network ingress, the original packets provided by said source users and entering the network, are encapsulated with a so-called Single Sided Virtual Channel (SSVC) header including a Data Link Connection Identification (DLCI) field. Then, the packets provided by said source users and entering a given network node along their predefined path are monitored. Said packets SSVC headers DLCI fields are loaded with a same Virtual Channel number, whereby the corresponding traffics are being merged into a same channel, down to the destination network node. Then, the packets in said destination node are de-encapsulated from said SSVC header.

A method, system and device for enabling efficient bandwidth utilization of a multipoint network service over an arbitrary topology network that includes a plurality of network elements (NEs). In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises the steps of setting up a full connectivity between the NEs and providing the multipoint network service using the full connectivity, whereby data packets of the multipoint network services are transmitted from a source NE to at least one edge NE through at least one intermediate NE, and whereby data packets that need to be flooded are not replicated or at the source NE. The full connectivity includes an arbitrary combination of a first plurality of point-to-multipoint connections between each source NE and each edge NE and a second plurality of point-to-point connections between each source NE and every edge NE.

The invention discloses a method of data transmission. The method comprises the following steps: when the file data is stored at the client side, the client side uploads the digital digest of the file data to a server, the server obtains the result that whether the information of the file data with the same data content with the file data exists or not according to the data digest, and if the information of the file data exists, the data file is not required to be uploaded at the client side, and the uploading end is directly indicated to the client side. The invention also discloses a system of data transmission, which comprises a digital digest creating module, a digital digest uploading module, a file data transmission module, a digital digest retrieval and analysis module, an uploading judgment module and a memorizer. By comparing the digital digests of the data file, the invention prevents the files with the same contents from being repeatedly stored, reduces the occupation of the storage space at the server end and improves the utilization ratio of the network bandwidth; and the access load to the server is reduced through P2P transmission during the file downloading process.

A method and an apparatus adaptively and dynamically deliver multimedia content based on continuously monitored network conditions. Given the temporal relationships among the multimedia items in the multimedia data stream and also the current network condition, the method and apparatus compute a transmission schedule such that the transmission delay and the burstyness of the network bandwidth utilization are minimized, while maintaining the integrity of the multimedia presentation.

A method and system for implementing weighted fair flow control on a metropolitan area network. Weighted fair flow control is implemented using a plurality of metro packet switches (MPS), each including a respective plurality of virtual queues and a respective plurality of per flow queues. Each MPS accepts data from a respective plurality of local input flows. Each local input flow has a respective quality of service (QoS) associated therewith. The data of the local input flows are queued using the per flow queues, with each input flow having its respective per flow queue. Each virtual queue maintains a track of the flow rate of its respective local input flow. Data is transmitted from the local input flows of each MPS across a communications channel of the network and the bandwidth of the communications channel is allocated in accordance with the QoS of each local input flow. The QoS is used to determine the rate of transmission of the local input flow from the per flow queue to the communications channel. This implements an efficient weighted bandwidth utilization of the communications channel. Among the plurality of MPS, bandwidth of the communications channel is allocated by throttling the rate at which data is transmitted from an upstream MPS with respect to the rate at which data is transmitted from a downstream MPS, thereby implementing a weighted fair bandwidth utilization of the communications channel.

Systems and methods for addressing memory using non-power-of-two virtual memory page sizes improve graphics memory bandwidth by distributing graphics data for efficient access during rendering. Various partition strides may be selected for each virtual memory page to modify the number of sequential addresses mapped to each physical memory partition and change the interleaving granularity. The addressing scheme allows for modification of a bank interleave pattern for each virtual memory page to reduce bank conflicts and improve memory bandwidth utilization. The addressing scheme also allows for modification of a partition interleave pattern for each virtual memory page to distribute accesses amongst multiple partitions and improve memory bandwidth utilization.

In embodiments of the present disclosure improved capabilities are described for increasing the bandwidth in a large area broadband LTE wireless network, where regional optimization servers are incorporated near the wireless network in association with the public data network gateway, thus reducing the time-latency for applications being run from a mobile cellular device. Further, by associating additional optimization servers at base stations, application functionality may be optionally transferred from the regional optimization server to the local base station optimization server in instances where a number of mobile cellular devices are requesting the same data via their access through the same cell, and in other instances, to the effect that back haul network bandwidth utilization is reduced or eliminated.

A method, device, and system for providing multipoint network services over a ring topology network. According to the disclosed method point-to-point connections and point-to-multipoint connections are established between network elements (NEs) providing the same network services. These connections eliminate the need for replicating packets at a source NE and, as a result, the bandwidth utilization is significantly improved. In one embodiment of this invention the multipoint network services provided by the present invention is a virtual private LAN service (VPLS).

The embodiments of the invention disclose a flexible Ethernet business's optical transport network carrying method and an apparatus wherein the method comprises: extracting a flexible Ethernet business from a flexible Ethernet service layer; performing data division to the flexible Ethernet business to obtain at least two data queues with each data queue carrying a queue identification; mapping each data queue to an optical transport network container which comprises an optical channel data unit k container or a flexible optical channel data unit container; and transporting the various optical transport network containers to the optical transport network. With the embodiments of the invention, the utilization efficiency of the band width could be raised and the optical transport network building cost is reduced.

The present invention provides an enhanced H-ARQ scheme that optimizes bandwidth utilization and spectrum efficiency. When an H-ARQ attempt is unsuccessful due to loss or error over a hop between the BS and MS/SS, then only the first node in the hop chain that fails to decode the packet transmits another H-ARQ attempt. The BS determines the first node that fails on decoding based on certain information such as the feedback information sent from the nodes on the path. The previous node of the failed node is then instructed to retransmit by the BS.

The invention discloses a method and a system for distributing cloud computing resources, and relates to the field of cloud computing resource scheduling. The method comprises that various performance indexes of the cloud computing resources of a client are monitored; a current health degree value of the cloud computing resources is calculated according to the monitored various performance indexes and a cloud resource health degree model, wherein the current health degree value can reflect the various performance indexes comprehensively; when the current health degree value exceeds a cloud resource performance alarming threshold value, an cloud resource performance alarm is sent so as to prompt the client that cloud computing resource allocation needs to be optimized; and the cloud computing resources needed by the client are distributed according to a pre-set cloud resource optimization allocation strategy. Automatic monitoring is conducted on the cloud computing resources such as performance indexes of a central processing unit (CPU), internal memory, discs, network input or output (I/O). The current health degree of the cloud resources is calculated according to the performance indexes and the health degree model, and intelligent distribution of the cloud resources is achieved by utilizing an automation resource scheduling technology of cloud computing, and therefore optimal performance of the cloud resources is ensured.