CONGESTION NOTIFICATION ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONGESTION CONTROL

摘要

The invention proposes a congestion notification element for indicating a congestion status of a mesh node, the congestion notification element including at least one field specifying a mesh destination for which an intra-mesh congestion control is to be applied. A particular advantage of the invention lies in the ability of forwarding data frames on paths that share some links but not the bottleneck link with a path that is congestion controlled. This has not been possible with the currently specified congestion notification.