Distributed resilient load-balancing for multipath transport protocols
US11570239B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 20, 2020 |
| Grant date | Jan 31, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 25, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/165
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are described for providing a distributed application load-balancing architecture that supports multipath transport protocol for client devices connecting to an application service. Rather than having client devices generate new network five-tuples for new subflows to the application servers, the techniques described herein include shifting the burden to the application servers to ensure that the new network five-tuples land in the same bucket in the consistent hashing table. The application servers may receive a hashing function utilized by the load balancers to generate the hash of the network five-tuple. By having the application servers generate the hashes, the load balancers are able to continue stateless, low-level processing of the packets to route them to the correct application servers. In this way, additional subflows can be opened for client devices according to a multipath transport protocol while ensuring that the subflows are routed to the correct application server.
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