Network Traffic Control
A network traffic controller is a mechanism to control the flow of traffic on the network. The controller may be used to reduce overall packet loss and congestion. A network controller implements this by setting up restrictions and\or prioritising traffic for certain protocols, applications, ports on a network or by modifying the behaviour of traffic.
The main elements of traffic control are classification, scheduling and queuing. Classification looks at packet content or at other information related to packets and attribute them to a distinct class. Packets are then put into queues and eventually scheduled for transmission. The class of a packet determines in which queue the packet goes and how it is scheduled.
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