摘要 |
<p>A system (10) for temporarily storing and dequeuing received data units including searching a prioritized queue list associated with a received data unit (16) which is part of the guaranteed bandwidth of the connection on which it was received, and for which there are sufficient transmission credits available (43), based on a flow control mode (32, 34, 36, 38) associated with the data unit (16). If no such guaranteed bandwidth data unit (16) is found, the system (10) dequeues (40) from a highest priority queue having a head entry associated with an available bandwidth data unit (16), for which there are sufficient transmission credits available (43) to begin transmission based on a flow control mode (32, 34, 36, 38) associated with the data unit (16). If no such available bandwidth data unit (16) is found, then no data unit is dequeued (40) during that traversal of the queue list (27).</p> |