FLOW CONTROL BY EVALUATING NETWORK LOAD

摘要

A computer-based media data process for controlling transmission of digitized media data in a packet switching network. A networked computer workstation (data consumer) receiving data from a network filesystem (data producer) is adapted to measure the utilization of the network and the workstation. The workstation is further adapted to generate a scaling parameter representing the loading of the system and to transmit the scaling parameter to the fileserver. The fileserver is adapted to receive the scaling parameter and modify the volume of data transmitted according to the received scaling parameter. In a further embodiment of the invention the workstation stores received data in a buffer which varies in size according to the computed scaling parameter.