METHOD FOR COMPRESSING PACKET HEADERS WITHIN A TRUNKING PROTOCOL FOR AGGREGATING MULTIPLE INFORMATION CHANNELS ACROSS A NETWORK

摘要

A method for reducing the overhead incurred by the packet headers of a trunking protocol for aggregating multiple information channels across a network is provided. The method for compressing the packet headers of the trunking protocol is applied only to the inner headers (26b & 26c) of the packets (26), without requiring any hardware or software modification or configuration changes to the network equipment infrastructure. The inner header compression reduces header overhead and improves the bandwidth efficiency of the information channels.