Router für skalierbares Datennetz und Verfahren zur Aggregation und Weitergabe von einem Router zugeleiteten Daten

摘要

A network comprises routers, wherein at least some of the routers are configured to receive a number of datastreams and to output an aggregated datastream. Subject to the precondition that a limiting bit rate rand a number of burst bits bcan be quoted for each datastream i supplied to a router from outside the network, such that the number Ain(t1, t2) of data bits which are received at an input of the routers, between a time t1 and a later time t2, satisfies the relationship Ain(t1, t2)<=R*(t2-t1)+b, each router j controls the output of data packets in the aggregated datastream ia(j) such that, for a limiting bit rate Rag and for a predeterminable burst bit number B, the number Aout(t1, t2) of data bits output in the aggregated datastream ia(j) satisfies the relationship Aout(t1, t2)<=Rag*(t2-t1)+B, wherein Rag and Bare independent of the observation time period.