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H04L 12/56 (2006.01) H04L 29/06 (2006.01) H04L 29/08 (2006.01)

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CA 2249152

Flow control of packet based traffic by window is known. Novel modification is described which causes the flow control mechanism to reduce sending rate to some configured number rather than just reducing it by a fixed amount such as one half. The description also shows how the flow control mechanism can be constrained to a maximum rate. The configured numbers will assure that the connection can always run at a minimum rate but not more than a maximum rate. If the guaranteed minimum bandwidth is known and the round trip time between the end points is known or has been calculated, then the sender node needs only reduce its window to that which corresponds to a sending rate equal to that configured number. In this way the protocol will still probe for extra, opportunistic bandwidth but will be able to maintain the minimum rate. In a similar way a window that corresponds to the maximum rate can be calculated and used to constrain the maximum rate of sending.

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