Multi-tier polling

摘要

A polling arrangement where polling frequency and/or rates may be adjusted according to activities of end stations or other elements being polled. The ability to adjust the polling activities may be used to facilitate reducing or otherwise controlling network resources allocated to the supporting the polling or other messaging depending operations.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a plurality of non-transitory instructions executable with a processor to facilitate dynamically managing bandwidth allocated to end stations desiring to transmit data, the non-transitory instructions being sufficient to facilitate:
monitoring data transmission activities of the plurality of end stations; logging information reflective of the monitored data transmission activities; individually characterizing each end station to be one of active and inactive based on the logged information; determining a bandwidth available to facilitate polling the end stations; allocating a first amount of the bandwidth to support polling for a first plurality of end stations characterized as being inactive; allocating a second amount of the bandwidth to support polling for a second plurality of end stations characterized as being active, the second amount being greater than the first amount.