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LAYER 4 LOAD AWARE LOAD BALANCING

Application US20260081871A1 Kind: A1 Mar 19, 2026

Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventors

Zhiyuan Yao, Yoann Louis Simon Desmouceaux, Pierre Pfister, William Mark Townsley

Abstract

Load aware load balancing may be provided. Flow duration data associated with a plurality of flows associated with a plurality of servers may be obtained. Then a plurality of queue lengths respectively associated with the plurality of servers may be obtained. Next, a Shortest Expected Delay (SED) score may be determined for each of the plurality of servers based on the flow duration data and the plurality of queue lengths. A flow may then be assigned to a one of the plurality of servers having the lowest SED score.

CPC Classifications

H04L 47/125 H04L 43/067 H04L 43/0852 H04L 47/2441 H04L 47/522 H04L 67/1008 H04L 43/20

Filing Date

2025-09-22

Application No.

19336144