Google LLC (20250088454). Multipathing With Guest Flow Labels

Multipathing With Guest Flow Labels

Organization Name

Google LLC

Inventor(s)

Yong Wang of San Jose CA (US)

Tyler Griggs of Mountain View CA (US)

Vytautas Valancius of Palo Alto CA (US)

Multipathing With Guest Flow Labels

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250088454 titled 'Multipathing With Guest Flow Labels

Original Abstract Submitted

the disclosed technology is directed to techniques and mechanisms that provide reliable packet delivery in cloud computing environments. for example, an aspect of the disclosed technology is a process that replicates an original packet at the guest layer or within a virtual machine (vm) of a cloud computing system, adds different flow labels to the packet copies and original packet at the guest layer or virtualization layer, and maps two or more of the copies and original packets to different tunnels between source and destination nodes.