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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Venkata S. Amulothu, Plano, TX (US);
Ashish Kapur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vishal Shukla, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and associated systems for on-demand bandwidth allocation on a mixed-infrastructure network in response to continuously changing populations of sensor devices. Sensors autonomously add themselves to or delete themselves from sensor clusters available to the network. A physical cluster controller detects each change, identifies resulting changes in a cluster's bandwidth requirements, and stores this information in a local database. If a sensor-population change satisfies a triggering condition, the controller requests that a network-management component of the network adjust the controller's bandwidth allocation. The network-management component aggregates this and similar requests from all connected controllers in a global database, and when controller bandwidth requirements satisfy a second triggering condition, the component, using a standard API, asks the network-management component to reprovision the component's virtual bandwidth allocation. The component then distributes the adjusted bandwidth among its sensor-cluster controllers, which in turn allocate their adjusted bandwidths among their sensor devices.