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Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2015
Applicants:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Hitachi, Ltd., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Matti A. Hiltunen, Morristown, NJ (US);

Richard D. Schlichting, New Providence, NJ (US);

Kaustubh Joshi, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);

Hiroya Matsuba, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01);
Abstract

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for a topology aware load balancing engine. A processor that executes a load balancing engine can receive a request for a load balancing plan for an application. The processor can obtain network topology data that describes elements of a data center and links associated with the elements. The processor can obtain an application flow graph associated with the application and create a load balancing plan to use in balancing traffic associated with the application. The processor can create the load balancing plan to use in balancing traffic associated with the application and distribute commands to the data center to balance traffic over the links.


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