Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Link aggregation with receive side buffering
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Application No.: US16960343Application Date: 2018-01-31
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Publication No.: US11546250B2Publication Date: 2023-01-03
- Inventor: Pierre Hygren , Per-Arne Thorsén
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/052394 WO 20180131
- International Announcement: WO2019/149349 WO 20190808
- Main IPC: G01R31/08
- IPC: G01R31/08 ; H04J3/06 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L45/24 ; H04L45/00 ; H04L47/2483 ; H04L47/34

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a communication arrangement (110, 130) adapted for link aggregation of a plurality of communication links (120a, 12b, 120c). The communication arrangement (110, 130) is adapted to communicate via the plurality of communication links (120a, 120b, 120c) and comprises a traffic handling unit (112, 132) that is adapted to obtain data segments (414-417, 419-421, 423-425) to be transmitted, and to identify one or more data flows (401, 402, 403, 404) in said data segments. The traffic handling unit is adapted to attach sequence numbers, SEQ, to data segments associated with each identified data flow (401, 402, 403, 404), wherein sequence numbers are independent between data flows and to select a communication link for transmission of a data segment associated with a certain data flow (401, 402, 403, 404). The selecting comprises selecting a previous communication link that has been used for transmission of a previous data segment from said certain data flow (401, 402, 403, 404) if possible, and selecting any communication link otherwise.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200374218A1 Link Aggregation With Receive Side Buffering Public/Granted day:2020-11-26
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