摘要 |
<p>A network comprises a frame delivery schedule system for weighting and timing the delivery of frames from flows according to user-definable policies. The frame delivery schedule system comprises a scheduler (18), a schedule queue (29), and a policy database (25). The scheduler (18) comprises an algorithm whereby each queued flow is weighted at least once and wherein a flow having frames waiting to be sent is re-weighted after one of its frames is sent.</p> |