| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method and a network element 3 for marking data packets to be transmitted in a packet switched network 10 with a priority information I, said packets being treated in said network 10 according to said priority information I. The priority information I is determined depending on a nominal bit rate NBR allocated to a certain service connection and a momentary bit rate MBR of said connection that is calculated depending on an importance marking IU contained in a received data packet indicating an importance level of said data packet. Thus, the nominal bit rate NBR allocated to an end-user can be shared between a plurality of applications with different characteristics in order to give certain applications a higher priority than other applications. The present invention relates to a corresponding terminal device 9 to be used with such a network element 3. |
