A GENERAL FLOW CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A general flow control apparatus includes a status monitoring unit, a flow control deciding unit, a flow control strategy storing unit and a performing unit. The status monitoring unit is used for reporting the current operating status of the service node to the flow control deciding unit; the flow control deciding unit is used for providing the current operating status of the service node to the flow control strategy storing unit, generating a flow control command according to an evaluating result which is retrieved by the flow control strategy storing unit based on one or more flow control algorithms and the current operating status of the service node, and distributing the flow control command; the flow control strategy storing unit is used for storing at least one flow control algorithm, retrieving the evaluating result according to one or more flow control algorithms and the current operating status of the service node provided by the flow control deciding unit, and providing it to the flow control deciding unit; the performing unit is used for controlling the new arriving traffic according to the flow control command distributed by the flow control deciding unit. A flow control method.