METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN A RESOURCE- CONSTRAINED NETWORK

摘要

An electronic device may utilize or support adaptive traffic management in a resource-constrained network. The adaptive traffic management may comprise applying a multi-stage filtering to packets received by the electronic device, wherein each stage of the multi-stage filtering may comprises a validation check and a failure of any validation check of any stage when handling a packet terminates the handling of the packet. The adaptive traffic management may comprise apply an adaptive search function, whereby when the number of search responses received by the electronic device exceeds a particular maximum response threshold, one or more criteria for modifying search requests may be selected, to reduce number of expected search responses, and the modified search criteria may be applied to generated modified search command(s) that are applied in the search function.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
in an electronic device comprising a communication interface for communicating over a physical medium: applying multi-stage filtering to packets received by said electronic device, wherein:
each stage of said multi-stage filtering comprises a validation check, and a failure of any validation check of any stage when handling a packet terminates said handling of said packet; andat least one stage of said multi-stage filtering comprises a check that said packet is destined for said electronic device, and said check that said packet is destined for said electronic device is determined based on subnet masking.