SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MODEMS IN A COMPUTING DEVICE

Systems and methods for controlling a modem in a computing device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a traffic scheduler is logically positioned between the applications and the net driver of the computing device. The traffic scheduler receives all the packets from the applications and prioritizes th...

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Hauptverfasser: ATTAR RASHID AHMED AKBAR, PERELMAN VALERIYA, LIU BOJIN, GUREVICH NELA
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Systems and methods for controlling a modem in a computing device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a traffic scheduler is logically positioned between the applications and the net driver of the computing device. The traffic scheduler receives all the packets from the applications and prioritizes the packets in a smart queue. Based on the available uplink bandwidth and/or the queue at the modem, the traffic scheduler passes packets from the smart queue to the net driver to be passed to the modem. In addition to having the benefit of having the higher priority packets be passed before the lower priority packets, the traffic scheduler has the added advantage of allowing the deletion of packets that are no longer needed (e.g., packets generated by a program that the user has closed).