| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus for concatenating data packets in a communication protocol is described, wherein a connection to be used for concatenation is allocated to a memory region based on which data packets received from said connection are stored in order to be concatenated. Furthermore, an activity information of the connection is provided, wherein the allocation of the connection is changed on the basis of the activity information. Thus, a cache of connections which are deemed suitable for concatenation can be managed by shifting and cancelling the memory regions allocated to the connections so that active connections which actually utilize concatenation are kept in the cache, while other connections which do not need the concatenation feature are purged from the cache. Thereby, a restriction can be placed on the number of connections that can take advantage of the concatenation, so as to limit the overhead produced by the concatenation feature.</p> |
