| 摘要 |
A method of forwarding data transmissions from a first network to a third network via a second network comprises receiving packets of a first type from the first network, segmenting each packet of a first type into packets of a second type, transmitting the packets of a second type to the second network, and producing and transmitting at least one encoded duplicate of each of the packets of a second type to the second network. The encoded duplicate packet allows a packet of the first type to be recreated in the event that not all the packets of the second type are received at the second network. In the event that a sufficient number of the packets of a second type and the encoded duplicate packets are not received to recreate the packet of a first type, the method determines a loss ratio that represents the number of packets not recreated relative to the number of packets transmitted during a selected time interval, dynamically adjusts the overhead required to produce the encoded duplicate packets to attempt to minimize the loss ratio, detects a significant increase in the determined loss ratio over a plurality of the time intervals, successively reduces the overhead required to produce the encoded duplicate packets in response to the detection of a significant increase in the determined loss ratio, and determines whether the reduced overhead requirement stabilizes the determined loss ratio and, if the answer is affirmative, terminates the successive reduction of the overhead requirement. |
