Microsoft technology licensing, llc (20250112865). CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE AWARE LOAD BALANCER SELECTION
CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE AWARE LOAD BALANCER SELECTION
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microsoft technology licensing, llc
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CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE AWARE LOAD BALANCER SELECTION
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250112865 titled 'CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE AWARE LOAD BALANCER SELECTION
Original Abstract Submitted
the present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing performance aware mux selection for traffic in layer-4 load balancing. the methods and systems assign a subset of vip ranges (vip shards) to a subset of muxes based on capacity of the muxes. the methods and systems allow sources (end-hosts) in the same datacenter (dc) to select the muxes for intra-dc traffic. the methods and systems allow the sources to use weights calculated by a controller for splitting the traffic across muxes based on an end-to-end latency of the muxes. the methods and systems allow the sources to know the muxes handling the traffic by using packet modification and allow the muxes to route the packets to reach specific muxes.