DYNAMIC ASYNCHRONOUS BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION WITH MULTIPLE PREDICTORS FOR VARIABLE BIT RATE TRAFFIC

With multiple predictors, a method dynamically allocates bandwidth to traffic having a variable data rate in a network. A first amount P-I of bandwidth is allocated in a first state of a state machine. A second amount P-II of bandwidth is allocated in a second state of the state machine, and a third amount of bandwidth P-III is allocated in a a third state of the state machine such that P-II>P-I>P-III. Cost functions are periodically evaluated to transition between the first, second, and third states of the state machine.