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Abstract

In example embodiments of the systems and methods of multipath load balancing disclosed herein, a bundle of packets for transmission over a network backbone is transformed into N parallel bundles. The multi-path model is composed of its N constituent legs that are signaled between the same ingress/egress node pair such that each leg can potentially carry 1/N of the traffic rate of the original route. The multi-path legs can be easily identified based on their placement or power in the backbone due to their ability to carry the largest traffic volume between important or critical nodes. The number of parallel legs that the bundle is composed of may be set based on the average nodal degree of connectivity in the network backbone.

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