Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Weighted equal cost multipath routing
- Patent Title (中): 加权等成本多径路由
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Application No.: US14450106Application Date: 2014-08-01
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Publication No.: US09502111B2Publication Date: 2016-11-22
- Inventor: Sarang Dharmapurikar , Mohammadreza Alizadeh Attar , Navindra Yadav , Ramanan Vaidyanathan , Kit Chiu Chu
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; G11C15/04 ; H04L12/707 ; H04L12/803

Abstract:
In some implementations, network traffic can be routed along equal cost paths based on weights assigned to each path. For example, weighted equal cost multipath routing can be implemented by assigning weights to each equal cost path (e.g., uplink, next hop node) to a destination device. When the network device receives a packet, the network device can generate a key (e.g., a random value, a hash value based on packet data, a value between 0 and n, etc.). The key can be used to select an uplink or path upon which to forward the packet. A key can be generated for a packet flow or flowlet. Each flow can be associated with the same key so that each packet in a flow will be forwarded along the same path. Each flowlet can be forwarded along a different uplink.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150124652A1 WEIGHTED EQUAL COST MULTIPATH ROUTING Public/Granted day:2015-05-07
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