Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080320585 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MITIGATE LOW RATE DENIAL OF SERVICE (DoS) ATTACKS - A technique to mitigate low rate Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks at routers in the Internet is described. In phase 1, necessary flow information from the packets traversing through the router is stored in fast memory; and in phase 2, stored flow information is periodically moved to slow memory from the fast memory for further analysis. The system detects a sudden increase in the traffic load of expired flows within a short period. In a network without low rate DoS attacks, the traffic load of all the expired flows is less than certain thresholds which are derived from real Internet traffic analysis. The system can also include a filtering solution to drop attack packets. The filtering scheme treats the long-lived flows in the Internet preferentially, and drops the attack traffic by monitoring the queue length if the queue length exceeds a threshold percent of the queue limit. | 12-25-2008 |
20090089139 | SCHEDULING PROCESSING TASKS USED IN ACTIVE NETWORK MEASUREMENT - A method of scheduling tasks for active network measurement includes identifying a first measurement task for measuring a first network parameter and a second measurement task for measuring a second network parameter. It is determined whether there is a conflict between the first measurement task and the second measurement task. A first execution time of the first measurement task and a second execution time of the second measurement task are also determined. A task schedule is generated based at least in part on the first execution time, the second execution time, and whether there is the conflict between the first measurement task and the second measurement task. The task schedule is further generated based at least in part on a color graph. | 04-02-2009 |
20100202415 | DATA PACKET TRAFFIC SCHEDULING - Techniques of scheduling data packets are disclosed. For example, such data packet scheduling techniques may be employed to schedule data packets on wired and/or wireless networks. An example embodiment includes techniques for scheduling voice-over-Internet protocol data packets transmitted between a base station and a subscriber station on a WiMAX network. | 08-12-2010 |
20100215361 | CONFIGURATION OF PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS INCLUDING CASCADED ARRAY WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS - Techniques for partitioning and/or combining at least a portion of an optical network tree including one or more array waveguide gratings (“AWGs”) and fibers in wavelength division multiplexing (“WDM”) passive optical networks (“PON”) with cascaded AWGs are disclosed. Example methods include deriving the optimal positions for the AWGs to minimize fiber cost and then determining the arrangement of cascaded AWGs to minimize the total cost of AWGs and fibers. Determining the arrangement of cascaded AWGs may include recursive partitioning followed by recursive combination. An example recursive partition-combination based algorithm for optimizing a tradeoff between the AWG cost and the fiber cost is disclosed. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220722 | POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT (P2MP) NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Techniques for managing resources in a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network are disclosed. In some examples, a root station is adapted to transmit and receive network packets and leaf stations are adapted to transmit and receive the network packets from the root station. An electrical control system can be adapted to reduce an amount of time for the electrical control system to produce a steady state output and to define a maximum boundary for the output. The electrical control system may include feedback to control the root station based, at least in part, on the output of the electrical control system. | 09-02-2010 |
20100232790 | MAXIMIZING CAPACITY OF WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS - Technologies are generally described for substantially maximizing capacity in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical network (PON). An “achievable rate region” may be defined as a set containing admissible traffic rates of a given WDM PON system such that a volume of an achievable rate region is proportional to a capacity of the network. Deriving the achievable rate region for a particular network, decisions may be made whether incoming traffic rate can or cannot be achieved for that network. Moreover, the achievable rate region may be used to construct a WDM PON utilizing a minimum number of wavelengths, a minimum number of lasers with narrowest tuning ranges, and a minimum number of receivers, thereby reducing a capital expenditure in building the PON system. | 09-16-2010 |
20100254271 | POINT-TO- MULTIPOINT (P2MP) NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Techniques for managing resources in a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network are disclosed. In some examples, a root station is adapted to transmit and receive network packets and leaf stations are adapted to transmit and receive the network packets from the root station. An electrical control system can be adapted to adjust a control error toward a zero value and adjust an output toward a steady state. The electrical control system may include feedback to control the root station based, at least in part, on the output of the electrical control system. | 10-07-2010 |
20100260189 | TRANSFERRING DATA AMONG NODES ON A NETWORK - Techniques for transferring data among nodes on a network are disclosed. Some example methods include a downloader-initiated random linear network coding algorithm. A downloading node may be aware of the chunks of original data held by neighboring nodes, and the downloading node can request linear combinations of chunks from the neighboring nodes that are linearly independent of any linear combinations of chunks already held by the downloading node. | 10-14-2010 |
20100309776 | Allocating Bandwidth in a Resilient Packet Ring Network by P Controller - Implementations and techniques for allocating bandwidth in a resilient packet ring network by a P-type controller are generally disclosed. | 12-09-2010 |
20100309780 | Allocating Bandwidth in a Resilient Packet Ring Network by PI Controller - Implementations and techniques for allocating bandwidth in a resilient packet ring network by a PI-type controller are generally disclosed. | 12-09-2010 |
20110026437 | Disseminating Link State Information to Nodes of a Network - Techniques are generally disclosed for disseminating link state information to one or more nodes of a network of nodes, the network of nodes interconnected via a plurality of communication channels. | 02-03-2011 |
20110211834 | SCHEDULING WDM PON WITH TUNABLE LASERS WITH DIFFERENT TUNING TIMES - Technologies are generally described for network traffic scheduling in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical network (PON). Dynamic wavelength assignment and time allocation in hybrid WDM/TDM PONs with tunable lasers as optical light generators is accomplished by mapping the scheduling into a multi-processor scheduling problem with wavelength channels as machines and ONU requests as jobs. Wavelengths may be considered as parallel identical machines. Taking laser tuning time into consideration preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling with the objective of minimizing the latest job completion time is computed employing a number of heuristic algorithms. The algorithms compute two extreme cases of zero and infinity laser tuning time, respectively. Using the results from these two extreme cases, the heuristic scheduling schemes for the case of arbitrary laser tuning time yield close average latest job completion times for both schedule types. | 09-01-2011 |
20120008637 | DIFFERENTIAL FRAME BASED SCHEDULING FOR INPUT QUEUED SWITCHES - A differential frame-based scheduling scheme is employed for input queued (IQ) switches with virtual output queues (VOQ). Differential scheduling adjusts previous scheduling based on a traffic difference in two consecutive frames. To guarantee quality of service (QoS) with low complexity, the adjustment first reserves some slots for each port pair in each frame, then releases surplus allocations and supplements deficit allocations according to a dichotomy order, designed for high throughput, low jitter, fairness, and low computational complexity. | 01-12-2012 |
20130044595 | System and Method for Transmission Control Protocol Service Delivery in Wireless Communications Systems - A method for delivering packets in a wireless communications system includes determining a cause of loss for a previously transmitted packet based on a packet acknowledgement corresponding to the previously transmitted packet, the packet acknowledgement including at least one of a wireless loss indicator and a congestion warning indicator for the wireless communications system. The method also includes adjusting a transmission parameter in a packet transmission protocol according to the cause of loss, and retransmitting the previously transmitted packet. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044598 | System and Method for Transmission Control Protocol Slow-Start - An embodiment of a system and method that uses inline measurements to probe available bandwidth for a transmission control protocol, and adaptively sets a slow-start threshold according to the available bandwidth. The method includes initializing a congestion window “cwnd,” sending cwnd packets, estimating an available bandwidth for the cwnd packets. The congestion window cwnd is set to a higher number, and the higher number of further packets is sent if the available bandwidth is greater than a first threshold level. The available bandwidth is re-estimated for the higher number of the further packets, and a soft start threshold “ssthresh” is set to the re-estimated available bandwidth. A statistical measure is calculated for the re-estimated available bandwidth, and the congestion window cwnd is set equal to ssthresh if a ratio of the statistical measure to the re-estimated available bandwidth is less than a second threshold level. | 02-21-2013 |
20130124753 | FAIR QUANTIZED CONGESTION NOTIFICATION (FQCN) TO MITIGATE TRANSPORT CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP) THROUGHPUT COLLAPSE IN DATA CENTER NETWORKS - Technologies are generally described for an enhanced Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) congestion control approach, referred to as Fair QCN (FQCN) for enhancing fairness of multiple flows sharing link capacity in a high bandwidth, low latency data center network. QCN messages may be fed back to flow sources (e.g., servers) which send packets with a sending rate over their share of the bottleneck link capacity. By enabling the flow sources to regulate their data traffic based on the QCN messages from a congestion control component, the queue length at the bottleneck link may converge to an equilibrium queue length rapidly and TCP throughput performance may be enhanced substantially in a TCP incast circumstance. | 05-16-2013 |
20130212679 | PROACTIVE TEST-BASED DIFFERENTIATION METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MITIGATE LOW RATE DoS ATTACKS - A low rate DoS attack detection algorithm is used, which relies on a characteristic of the low rate DoS attack in introducing high rate traffic for short periods, and then uses a proactive test based differentiation technique to filter the attack packets. The proactive test defends against DDoS attacks and low rate DoS attacks which tend to ignore the normal operation of network protocols, but it also differentiates legitimate traffic from low rate DoS attack traffic instigated by botnets. It leverages on the conformity of legitimate flows, which obey the network protocols. It also differentiates legitimate connections by checking their responses to the proactive tests which include puzzles for distinguishing botnets from human users. | 08-15-2013 |
20130265869 | Systems and Methods for Selective Data Redundancy Elimination for Resource Constrained Hosts - System and method embodiments are provided for selective data redundancy elimination. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a transmission point, an incoming data packet containing content, wherein the content comprises a content type, eliminating, with the transmission point, redundant data elements from the data packet when the content type matches a selective data redundancy elimination type, and bypassing, with the transmission point, selective data redundancy elimination when the content type matches a bypass-elimination type. | 10-10-2013 |
20130279333 | Allocating Bandwidth in a Resilient Packet Ring Network by PI Controller - Implementations and techniques for allocating bandwidth in a resilient packet ring network by a PI-type controller are generally disclosed. | 10-24-2013 |
20140047252 | HIERARCHICAL ENERGY OPTIMIZATION FOR DATACENTER NETWORKS - Technologies are presented for power optimization of datacenter networks in a hierarchical perspective. In some examples, a two-level power optimization model may be established to reduce the power consumption of datacenter networks by switching off network switches and links while still guaranteeing full connectivity and maximum link utilization. The model may be implemented by solving a capacitated constraint multi-commodity flow (CMCF) problem employing simple heuristic techniques. A power status of network switches may be determined according to a network traffic matrix and the CMCF optimization determined at core-level and at pod-level. A complementary process to provision whole network connectivity and to meet quality of service (QoS) goals may also be performed. | 02-13-2014 |
20140119254 | CELL SIZE OPTIMIZATION FOR ENERGY SAVINGS IN CELLULAR NETWORKS WITH HYBRID ENERGY SUPPLIES - Technologies are generally described for reducing the from-power-grid energy consumption of a wireless network such as a cellular network over a period of time through cell size adaptations. According to some examples, cell sizes for the base stations may be optimized by decomposing the cell size optimization into two approaches: a multi-stage energy allocation approach and an energy consumption minimization approach. By implementing an energy allocation policy based on available energy type (e.g., from-power grid or renewable) and an approximation technique for the energy consumption minimization, cell size optimization for each base station may be achieved resulting in network-wide enhancement of renewable energy usage vs. from-power-grid energy usage. | 05-01-2014 |
20140121849 | ALLEVIATING SOLAR ENERGY CONGESTION IN THE DISTRIBUTION GRID VIA SMART METERING COMMUNICATIONS - Technologies are generally described for alleviating solar power congestion in a distribution grid via smart metering communications. According to some examples, a power network system supervised by utility operators may monitor and control grid-tied power generation modules associated with consumers to ensure the distribution grid is stable in terms of network capacity limit. A communications infrastructure including home area networks (HANs) and neighborhood area networks (NANs) between smart meters and utility control centers may facilitate power congestion management. Utility control centers (UCCs) in cooperation with smart meters or energy management units (EMUs) may selectively disconnect consumer power generation units to maintain the system reliability. | 05-01-2014 |
20140249688 | DECENTRALIZED CONTROLS AND COMMUNICATIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS IN SMART GRID - Technologies are generally described for addressing the bidirectional power flow conflict incurred by power surpluses produced from a number of households' on-location energy generation units (e.g., solar) in power distribution networks. A micro grid composed of households in a neighborhood may be considered as a generating- or consuming-resource entity at different time periods. The approach may be formulated as a power balance computation such that power balance may not be achieved within the micro grid itself, and therefore power sharing (or redispatching) among micro grids is operated, before requesting power from the macro grid, i.e., the fuel-based conventional grid. Enhancement of renewable energy utilization and reduction in the amount of data packet traffic in exchange of information and control messages via uplink and downlink transmissions throughout an overlay multi-tier communications network infrastructure may be taken into consideration in example implementations. | 09-04-2014 |
20140313956 | TRADING SPECTRUM FOR ENERGY SAVINGS IN GREEN COGNITIVE CELLULAR NETWORKS - Technologies are generally described for reducing overall power consumption of a wireless network such as a cellular network through spectrum trading. According to some examples, spectrum may be shared between primary base stations (PBSs) and secondary base stations (SBSs) to reduce a power consumption of PBSs and increase the spectral efficiency of cellular networks. A PBS may share a portion of its licensed bandwidth with SBSs, to provide data services to primary users (Pus) within SBSs' coverage area. Due to their proximity to the PUs, the SBSs may satisfy the PUs' quality of service (QoS) requirements by utilizing a portion of the allocated bandwidth. Thus, PBSs may reduce their power consumption by offloading some of the PUs to SBSs. Because the SBSs typically use lower power compared to the PBS, the overall power consumption of the network may be reduced as well. | 10-23-2014 |