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Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Paul Coccoli, Marietta, GA (US);

Bradford A. Fisher, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Nathan P. Frith, Douglasville, GA (US);

Jian Lin, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/825 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 47/26 (2013.01); H04L 41/142 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods for distributed dynamic sizing and load self-management for a relay infrastructure. In one method, a relay in a relay infrastructure determines whether a current load level of the relay reaches an expansion level of the relay and whether an overload condition of the relay infrastructure is satisfied, and the relay initiates an expansion process in response to the determination. In another method, a relay in a relay infrastructure determines whether in response to determining that an underload condition of the relay infrastructure is satisfied, and the relay initiates a contraction process in response to the determination. In yet another method, a relay in a relay infrastructure determines whether a tolerance-load condition of the relay infrastructure is satisfied, and the relay in initiates a load self-management process in response to the determination.


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