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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Cray Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cray Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/11 (2013.01); H04L 45/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01); H04L 45/122 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and algorithm configured to generate diversity at the traffic source so that packets are uniformly distributed over all of the available paths, but to increase the likelihood of taking a minimal path with each hop the packet takes. This is achieved by configuring routing biases so as to prefer non-minimal paths at the injection point, but increasingly prefer minimal paths as the packet proceeds, referred to herein as Increasing Minimal Bias (IMB).