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摘要

One embodiment provides a system that facilitates bandwidth-profile enforcement. During operation, the system indicates a packet's compliance with a bandwidth profile based at least on available high-compliance tokens and medium-compliance tokens. The system further converts, within different classes of service (CoSs), an overflow high-compliance token to a medium-compliance token, in a top-down or bottom-up fashion with respect to different CoS priorities.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a processor; a storage device storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising: indicating a packet's compliance with a bandwidth profile based at least on available high-compliance tokens and medium-compliance tokens, wherein the tokens are provided at regular time intervals and associated with packets to facilitate enforcement of the bandwidth profile; and converting an overflow high-compliance token to a medium-compliance token, prior to the high-compliance token being associated with a packet.