METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A FLOW IN A PACKET SWITCHING NETWORK

摘要

The invention is related to the field of flow control between two computing nodes over a packet switching network. Furthermore, the invention concerns a method for controlling data flow between a sending node SN and a receiving node RN over a packet switching network, data being sent with a current data rate SR onto a protocol-specific buffer BU of the receiving node RN, an application AP reading data stored in the buffer BU at a playback rate SPR, According to the invention, it involves the following steps: - Notifying by the sending node SN to the receiving node RN about its maximum sending rate SRMax; - Determining by the receiving node RN a desired sending rate DSR value for the sending node SN from playback rate SPR value; - when the desired sending rate DSR value is significantly different from the current data rate SR value, notifying the desired sending rate DSR value by the receiving node RN to the sending node SN.