| CPC H04L 47/6235 (2013.01) [H04L 47/6255 (2013.01); H04L 49/3027 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A controller, the controller comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
obtain a state of each respective queue of a plurality of queues of a network node, wherein the state of a respective queue is indicative of a quantity of frames in the respective queue, and wherein each respective queue is associated with a priority entry;
determine, based on the states of the plurality of queues, that a quantity of frames in one or more respective first queues exceeds a first threshold of one or more thresholds, wherein the first threshold is indicative of a nearly full state of a queue;
determine one or more second queues from the plurality of queues based on one or more default priority entries of the one or more second queues, wherein a default priority entry of each of the one or more second queues is lower than a respective default priority entry of one of the one or more first queues
generate one or more new priority entries for the one or more first queues, wherein each of the one or more new priority entries equals a respective default priority entry of one of the one or more second queues; and
provide the one or more new priority entries to the one or more queues of the network node.
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