Steering network flows away from congestion and high latency hotspots

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10666729
APP PUB NO 20180063743A1
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15654588

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An approach is disclosed for steering network traffic away from congestion hot-spots to achieve better throughput and latency. In one embodiment, multiple Foo-over-UDP (FOU) tunnels, each having a distinct source port, are created between two endpoints. As a result of the distinct source ports, routers that compute hashes of packet fields in order to distribute traffic flows across network paths will compute distinct hash values for the FOU tunnels that may be associated with different paths. Probes are scheduled to measure network metrics, such as latency and liveliness, of each of the FOU tunnels. In turn, the network metrics are used to select particular FOU tunnel(s) to send traffic over so as to avoid congestion and high-latency hotspots in the network.

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VMWARE LLC3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE PALO ALTO CA 94304

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Basak, Debashis San Jose, US 52 1634
Maskalik, Serge Los Gatos, US 78 4101
Masurekar, Uday Sunnyvale, US 59 2600
Sabin, Todd Morganville, US 31 674
Thakkar, Sachin San Jose, US 75 1837
Tumuluru, Laxminarayana Fremont, US 8 428
Wu, Weiqing Cupertino, US 45 1103

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