COMPUTING AND REPORTING LATENCY IN PRIORITY QUEUES

摘要

Providing an efficient way for operators to use an out-of-band (OOB) channel may enable the operator to better make decisions about how to configure priority queues for maximum effectiveness. Techniques for efficiently using the OOB channel include an assessment of parameters important for optimizing the configuration of priority queues in a downstream channel. For example, an improved latency metric for assisting an operator to judge the relative effect that priority assignments have on traffic is a parameter assessed for better use of the OOB channel. Further, measuring the queue latency and making the queue latency visible to the operator may enable a better configuration of the priority queues.