APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE WEIGHT ALLOCATED SCHEDULING WITH OFFSET COUNTER

摘要

An apparatus and a method for adaptive weight allocated scheduling with an offset counter are provided to satisfy delay characteristics of packets without tagging arrival time or marginal time slot information per each packet, thereby reducing overhead of a system and making a flexible packet transmission service possible by independently applying weight per each class. A scheduling apparatus of a packet network comprises the followings. A controller(410) controls weight setting processes and packet transceiving processes. A weight set unit(420) sets weight according to quality of service of a packet under instruction of the controller and provides the set weight to the controller. The apparatus further comprises a receiver(430) for providing packets to a transmitter(440) under instruction of the controller.