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摘要

The invention provides method of operating a node in a connectionless packet network carrying traffic assigned to different classes of service, the method including: (a) determining local values of one or more performance parameters in each of a plurality of different service classes for traffic output from the node onto a link; and (b) automatically controlling, in dependence upon the relationship between the performance parameters for the different service classes, the allocation by the node of resources to different service classes.