CONGESTION CONTROL IN A TRANSMISSION NODE
First Claim
1. A method of operating a communications network comprising:
- detecting congestion of a shared radio resource;
for a user of the shared radio resource, selectively dropping packets allocated to the shared radio resource in accordance with the user'"'"'s share of the shared radio resources.
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Abstract
Packets are selectively marked or dropped when congestion of the radio resources is experienced, the selective marking/dropping being related to or dependent on the probability that a packet will be marked with the relative efficiency of usage of the radio link by the receiver, e.g., dependent upon radio resource usage costs and fairness. For example, packets are marked or dropped based on a user'"'"'s associated share of the total (or a subset of the) shared radio resources. This share may be expressed in terms of the costs of the resources in terms the user'"'"'s level of utilization of the shared resources, or in terms of it'"'"'s fairness with respect to other users sharing the same resources. Thus, the present technology takes into account the distribution of resources usage between receivers contributing to the congested state of the radio network.
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16 Claims
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1. A method of operating a communications network comprising:
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detecting congestion of a shared radio resource; for a user of the shared radio resource, selectively dropping packets allocated to the shared radio resource in accordance with the user'"'"'s share of the shared radio resources. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A node of a communications network comprising:
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a transceiver configured to transmit a shared radio resource to a user; a packet marker configured, upon detection of congestion of the shared radio resource, to selectively drop packets allocated to the shared radio resource in accordance with the user'"'"'s share of the shared radio resources. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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