APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLED DELAY PACKET FORWARDING

摘要

An apparatus and method are described for forwarding of packets with controlled delay. In one embodiment, the invention includes controlled delay queuing logic to hold a packet in a first class for a queuing time of at least a controlled delay value, and scheduling logic to determine whether to delay transmission of a packet in a second class to allow the transmission of the packet in the first class when the queuing time reaches the controlled delay value.