A communication control apparatus includes an observed data rate acquiring unit configured to acquire observed data rates indicating input data rates of queues, the observed data rates being observed in a layer 2 switch, a threshold value storage unit configured to store predetermined threshold values of the queues, a shaping rate determination unit configured to determine a shaping rate of each queue based on both observed data based on an observed data rate of the observed data rates acquired by the observed data rate acquiring unit and a threshold value of the predetermined threshold values stored in the threshold value storage unit, and a shaping rate setting unit configured to set, in the layer 2 switch, the shaping rate of each queue determined by the shaping rate determination unit.

Rate limiting systems and methods for regulating access to a shared network resource in a computing device accessed through an application programming interface. A rate limit associated with a shared network resource is assigned to a user for a time period. During the time period, access to the shared network resource is granted or denied repeatedly based upon the rate limit; a cost is calculated using a cost function; and, the rate limit is updated based upon the cost.

A communication control system includes a plurality of layer 2 switches (SWs); and a communication control device that controls communication of the SWs. Each SW includes one or more queues that each have a variable queue length for accumulating input frames, and a transmission unit that has a shaping function of transmitting the frames accumulated in the queues to a desired destination at a desired rate. The communication control device includes a correction processing unit that acquires an amount of discarded data generated in each queue of the SW, and multiplies the acquired amount of discarded data by a correction coefficient weighted by the cumulative number of times of discarding occurrences for which the amount of discarded data is not 0 to obtain a corrected amount of discarded data; and an adjustment processing unit that determines adjustment values for the queue length of each queue and shaping rate of the SW based on the corrected amount of discarded data, and notifies each SW of the adjustment values.

In an embodiment, header information of messages is altered to specify a window within which to receive information, so that the messages sent by a remote device will be sent at a rate that a network can receive messages. The sending of acknowledgements of messages are paced to control window growth. Bandwidth is allocated to a plurality of flows such that the satisfied flows require less bandwidth than an amount of bandwidth allocated to each unsatisfied flow.

A system and method for managing network traffic in a distributed environment. the system including: a plurality of logic modules configured to determine policy data related to bandwidth management and at least one split criteria for a basis for shaping network traffic; a control processor associated with each one of the plurality of logic modules, each control processor configured to determine data associated with each of a plurality of traffic flows at the associated logic module and to coordinate traffic actions over the plurality of logic modules; a packet processor associated with each control processor and configured to determine a traffic action based on each traffic flow and received policy data; and at least two shaper objects configured to receive a split of the traffic flows and enforce the determined traffic action on their respective traffic flow.

An interface may be provided between i) a selective forwarding unit (SFU) configured to, in real-time, receive a data stream from a sender via a first network link of a communication network and selectively forward the data stream to one or more receivers via respective second network links, and ii) one or more core network functions (PCF, PCRF, NSMF, CSMF) for establishing service guarantees for data flows in the communication network. In a specific example, the interface may be established as a network function (SMGF) which translates streaming requirements for one-to-many flows coming from WebRTC SFUs into appropriate QoS/network slice configurations, such that the quality of RTC flows may be increased. Accordingly, negative side-effects of conservative congestion control algorithms in WebRTC clients and static/overprovisioned QoS at network operators may be overcome.

Systems and methods provide for Selective Tracking of Acknowledgments (STACKing) to improve buffer utilization and traffic shaping for one or more network devices. A network device can identify a first flow that corresponds to a predetermined traffic class and a predetermined congestion state. The device can determine a current window size and congestion threshold of the first flow. In response to a determination to selectively track a portion of acknowledgments of the first flow, the device can track, in main memory, information of a first portion of acknowledgments of the first flow. The device can exclude, from one or more buffers, a second portion of acknowledgments of the first flow. The device can re-generate and transmit segments corresponding to the second portion of acknowledgments at a target transmission rate based on traffic shaping policies for the predetermined traffic class and congestion state.

Systems, computer-readable media and methods for aggregating data items from an out-of-order data stream over a sliding window efficiently. The method delays the value aggregation for certain time windows and computes partial aggregations that can be reused for the multiple time windows. Aggregations may have any value type such as Boolean, integer, strings, floating point, vector and map.

Embodiments described herein relate to techniques for distributing shaped subinterfaces among physical interfaces of a port channel. Such techniques include receiving a request to configure a shape rate for a port channel subinterface; generating a physical interface set specifying: a first physical interface and a first allocated bandwidth associated with the first physical interface; and a second physical interface and a second allocated bandwidth associated with the second physical interface; making a selection, using the physical interface set, of the first physical interface based on the first allocated bandwidth being lesser than the second allocated bandwidth; assigning the first physical interface as a first anchor interface for the first port channel subinterface; and adding the first shape rate to the first allocated bandwidth to obtain a first new allocated bandwidth for the first physical interface.

Various embodiments are directed to techniques for dynamically adjusting a maximum rate of throughput for accessing data stored within a volume of storage space of a storage cluster system based on the amount of that data that is stored within that volume. An apparatus includes an access component to monitor an amount of client data stored within a volume defined within a storage device coupled to a first node, and to perform a data access command received from a client device via a network to alter the client data stored within the volume; and a policy component to limit a rate of throughput at which at least the client data within the volume is exchanged as part of performance of the data access command to a maximum rate of throughput, and to calculate the maximum rate of throughput based on the stored amount.