公开(公告)号：GB2515643A

公开(公告)日：2014-12-31

申请号：GB201408988

申请日：2012-12-13

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BASSO CLAUDE ,  ARMSTRONG WILLIAM ,  CHANG CHIH-JEN ,  GUSAT MIRCEA ,  NEESER FREDY ,  MINKENBERG CYRIEL ,  VALK KENNETH

IPC: H04L45/50

Abstract: IEEE 802.1Q and Enhanced Transmission Selection provide only eight different traffic classes that may be used to control bandwidth in a particular physical connection (or link). Instead of relying only on these eight traffic classes to manage bandwidth, the embodiments discussed herein disclose using an Enhanced Transmission Selection scheduler that permits a network device to set the bandwidth for an individual virtual LAN. Allocating bandwidth in a port based on a virtual LAN ID permits a network device to allocate bandwidth to, e.g., millions of unique virtual LANs. Thus, this technique may increase the granular control of the network fabric and its performance.