Adaptive partitioning of traffic among communications channels without injecting probe traffic

摘要

A method for adaptively and intelligently partitioning traffic among a plurality of communications channels, without injecting probe traffic into any of the channels. A source node transmits traffic to a receiving node viaKcommunications channels in accordance with partition coefficients α1to αKand the source node receives information regarding the quality of service (QoS) provided by each of the communications channels. The source node adjusts the values of the partition coefficients α1to αKadaptively based on: the current channel QoS information, prior channel QoS information, the prior values of α1to αKand a measure of channel independence for one or more pairs of communications channels. This method allows traffic to be partitioned among the communications channels so as to maximise performance without injecting additional probe traffic which would increase the traffic and reduce throughput.