A system and method for enabling a network switch to transmit queued packets to a device when opened by the device, and thus to utilize the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) in full-duplex mode when possible. The switch may include a plurality of queues each associated with a device on the FC-AL...http://www.google.de/patents/US7215680?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7215680 - Method and apparatus for scheduling packet flow on a fibre channel arbitrated loop
