there is provided a method of generating a soft schedule for the transmission of data to a User Equipment. The method includes receiving traffic to be scheduled for transmission and generating a soft schedule for the transmission of the received data in accordance with a resource allocation and the received traffic. The method further includes transmitting the soft schedule to a scheduler in an underlying network slice, for transmission to the UE. There is also provided a scheduler including a processor and machine readable memory storing machine executable instructions which when executed by the processor configures the scheduler perform the above method.

Manners of scheduling downloads for a user equipment (UE). The UE is configured to establish a connection to a network and receive an indication of a user-initiated download, determining whether the download is to be performed now or at a subsequent time, when the download is to be performed at the subsequent time, determine a time window during which the download is to be initiated and initiate the download during the time window.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide techniques for measuring congestion and controlling quality of service to a shared resource. A module that interfaces with the shared resource monitors the usage of the shared resource by accessing clients. Upon detecting that the rate of usage of the shared resource has exceeded a maximum rate supported by the shared resource, the module determines and transmits a congestion metric to clients that are currently attempting to access the shared resource. Clients, in turn determine a delay period based on the congestion metric prior to attempting another access of the shared resource.

A network resource manager is configured to read in from a deferrable instance a request to transfer program data and/or execution instructions to a computer-based resource of a cloud service provider for execution. If the load on the cloud service provider is high, the manager will transmit a query to the deferrable instance offering to assign an additional deferrable instance to the original deferrable instance if both the original deferrable instance and the additional deferrable instance accept a deferral period during which neither can make requests for resources.

In a system environment comprising a plurality of computing resources, wherein at least a portion of the computing resources are mobile, a method manages a transfer of one or more portions of a data set between at least a subset of the plurality of computing resources in accordance with a data distribution process. The data distribution process comprises computing one or more probability values to estimate whether or not a given mobile computing resource that is seeking at least a portion of the data set will be in a vicinity of at least one other computing resource that currently has or can obtain the portion of the data set, and based on the computation step, causing a transfer of the portion of the data set to the given mobile computing resource over a communication link locally established between the two computing resources when in the vicinity of one another.

Distributed computing systems, devices, and associated methods of packet routing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a field programmable gate array (FPGA) that includes an inbound processing path and outbound processing path in opposite processing directions. The inbound processing path can forward a packet received from the computer network to a buffer on the FPGA instead of the NIC. The outbound processing path includes an outbound multiplexer having a rate limiter circuit that only forwards the received packet from the buffer back to the computer network when a virtual port corresponding to the packet has sufficient transmission allowance. The outbound multiplexer can also periodically increment the transmission allowance based on a target bandwidth for the virtual port.

According to an embodiment, a transfer control device controls transfer of data stored in a communication device. The transfer control device includes a memory and one or more hardware processors electrically coupled to the memory and configured to function as a control unit, and a determining unit. The control unit performs control for transferring the data to a first transmission buffer. The determining unit determines, depending on a state of the communication device, data to be restricted from being transferred. When transfer is to be restricted, the control unit delays transfer of data to be restricted from being transferred.

Distributed computing systems, devices, and associated methods of packet routing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a computing network, a packet at a packet processor of a server. The method also includes matching the received packet with a flow in a flow table contained in the packet processor and determining whether the action indicates that the received packet is to be forwarded to a NIC buffer in the outbound processing path of the packet processor instead of the NIC. The method further includes in response to determining that the action indicates that the received packet is to be forwarded to the NIC buffer, forwarding the received packet to the NIC buffer and processing the packet in the NIC buffer to forward the packet to the computer network without exposing the packet to the main processor.

A method is provided of using a set of servers to provide deferential services that have a pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes defining a virtual checkpoint frame interval that is constrained to a duration of up to half of the pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes collecting packets and transactions occurring during the interval that are processed by a current server. The method includes, responsive to an end of the interval, (i) writing, to a shared state database, a state of processing of the packets and transactions occurring during the interval, and (ii) releasing the packets and transactions occurring during the interval. The method includes copying the packets and transactions occurring during the interval, and the state, from the current server to another server for subsequent processing, responsive to an indication of an instance loss on the current server.

A computer-implemented method on a device in a content delivery (CD) network. The device has hardware including storage with at least one first class of storage and at least one second class of storage, the first class of storage being faster than the second class of storage. A first portion of the first class of storage is allocated for log data, and a second portion of the second class of storage is allocated for log data. The method includes obtaining log event data from at least one component or service on the device that is to be delivered to a component or service on a distinct device. Each log event data item has a priority. If a connection to an external location is lost, at least some of the log event data items are selectively stored in the storage, wherein the storing is based on priority of the log event data items. Otherwise, if the connection is not lost, at least some of the log event data items are sent to the at least one external location.