METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONGESTION FOR CONTENTION ACCESS NETWORK
First Claim
1. A method for controlling congestion in a communications network comprising a plurality of terminals able to send a message, said method comprising:
- receiving a message or a message fragment at a given instant,evaluating the number of terminals currently operating in transmission,defining a time interval, called a congestion window, of duration Δ
Tf configured so as to be proportional to the number N of terminals currently operating in transmission and inversely proportional to the maximum input loading G of the network which makes it possible to obtain a substantially zero rate of retransmissions, andfor each terminal and each message or message fragment to be sent, making the start of the congestion window coincide with said given instant of receipt of a message or message fragment and defining an actual instant of sending of said message or message fragment as a random value taken in the congestion window.
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Abstract
A method of controlling congestion in a communications network comprising a plurality of terminals, comprises the steps of: receiving a message or a message fragment at a given instant; evaluating the number of terminals currently sending; defining a congestion window, of duration ΔTf configured so as to be proportional to the number N of terminals currently sending and inversely proportional to the maximum input loading G of the network which makes it possible to obtain a substantially zero rate of retransmissions; for each terminal and each message or message fragment to be sent, make the start of the congestion window coincide with the given instant of receipt of a message or message fragment and define an actual instant of sending of the message or message fragment as a random value taken in the congestion window.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for controlling congestion in a communications network comprising a plurality of terminals able to send a message, said method comprising:
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receiving a message or a message fragment at a given instant, evaluating the number of terminals currently operating in transmission, defining a time interval, called a congestion window, of duration Δ
Tf configured so as to be proportional to the number N of terminals currently operating in transmission and inversely proportional to the maximum input loading G of the network which makes it possible to obtain a substantially zero rate of retransmissions, andfor each terminal and each message or message fragment to be sent, making the start of the congestion window coincide with said given instant of receipt of a message or message fragment and defining an actual instant of sending of said message or message fragment as a random value taken in the congestion window. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13)
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8. A device for the control of congestion in a communications network comprising a plurality of terminals able to send a message, said device comprising a first module for evaluating the number of terminals currently operating in transmission and defining a time interval, called a congestion window, of duration Δ
- Tf configured so as to be proportional to the number N of terminals currently operating in transmission and inversely proportional to the maximum input loading G of the network which makes it possible to obtain a substantially zero rate of retransmissions and a second module for transmitting, at a given frequency, to all the terminals of the network an item of information making it possible to deduce the duration Δ
Tf of the congestion window. - View Dependent Claims (9)
- Tf configured so as to be proportional to the number N of terminals currently operating in transmission and inversely proportional to the maximum input loading G of the network which makes it possible to obtain a substantially zero rate of retransmissions and a second module for transmitting, at a given frequency, to all the terminals of the network an item of information making it possible to deduce the duration Δ
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10. A sender terminal able to send a message in a communications network comprising a plurality of said terminals, comprising a first module for receiving an item of information making it possible to deduce the duration Δ
- Tf of a time interval, called a congestion window, within which said message can be sent, suitable second module for defining the actual instant of transmission of said message or of a fragment of said message as a random value taken in the congestion window whose start coincides with the given instant of receipt of said message and a third module to transmit said message or message fragment with a delay equal to said instant of transmission defined.
- View Dependent Claims (11)
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