Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Load balancing
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Application No.: US15222109Application Date: 2016-07-28
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Publication No.: US10027571B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Don Fedyk , Bruce E. LaVigne
- Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Patent Department
- Main IPC: H04L12/721
- IPC: H04L12/721 ; H04L12/707 ; H04L12/803

Abstract:
Example implementations relate to load balancing network traffic flows in a network switching device. According to an example, a network switching device may include a port to receive a packet in a network flow, a bin mapper module to map the packet to a bin of a plurality of bins, and a path determination module to determine available paths from the network switching device to a destination device for the packet. The device can also include a profile score module to determine a profile score for each candidate link implicated by the determined available paths, the profile score being based on a proportion of the available paths that use the candidate link. The device can also include a link-usage-by-destination score module to determine, for each candidate link, a link-usage-by-destination score that represents an amount of traffic that has been sent on each candidate link to the destination relative to all candidate links. A load balancer can then select a candidate link for the network flow based on comparing the profile scores of the candidate links with the link-usage-by-destination scores of the candidate links and create a bin-link mapping between the bin and the selected candidate link.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180034724A1 LOAD BALANCING Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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