Patent attributes
A method for scheduling a transmission of data flows in a network. The method includes identifying an unscheduled set of data flows to be scheduled for a respective transmission on a subset of the set of links defining a respective path, scheduling a respective transmission of a subset of data flows on the respective path, wherein the schedule defines a start time, a duration, and a cycle time of the transmission on each respective link in the path. The method includes determining a conflict between an unscheduled data flow and a scheduled data flow with respect to a link in the path, displaying the unscheduled data flow, the link, and the scheduled data flow with which the conflict occurs, and displaying, for each scheduled data flow, an image depicting each respective link of the path, and a data transmission schedule with respect to each respective link in the path.