Method and apparatus for nomination of data transmission sink in network of gateways

Abstract

An information handling system of a first gateway access point in a wireless network includes at least one wireless adapter for receiving a plurality of reply messages including information that can be used to calculate a plurality of traffic factor values describing traffic flow between one of a plurality of gateways in the wireless network and a cloud computing resource, and a processor executing code instructions of a wireless network gateway sink nomination system. For each of the plurality of traffic factors, the wireless network gateway sink nomination system may calculate and store within a memory a traffic factor value for each of the plurality of gateways, based on the reply messages, associate each calculated traffic factor value with the gateway from which the reply message used to calculate each value was received, identify a most desirable calculated traffic factor value for each of the gateways, identify a most desirable sink gateway from the plurality of gateways based on the most desirable calculated traffic factor values, transmit the identity of the most desirable sink gateway to each of the plurality of gateways, and transmit data bound for transmission to the cloud computing resource to the most desirable sink gateway for delivery of the data to the cloud computing resource.