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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Bo Han, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Marco Platania, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Zhi-Li Zhang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Yang Zhang, St. Paul, MN (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a network-assisted Raft consensus protocol, referred to herein as 'NetRaft.' According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can include a plurality of servers operating in a server cluster, and a plurality of P4 switches corresponding to the plurality of servers. Each server of the plurality of servers can include a back-end that executes a complete Raft algorithm to perform leader election, log replication, and log commitment of a Raft consensus algorithm. Each P4 switch of the plurality of P4 switches can include a front-end that executes a partial Raft algorithm to perform the log replication and the log commitment of the Raft consensus algorithm. The back-end can maintain a complete state for responding to requests that cannot be fulfilled by the front-end. The requests can include read requests and/or write requests.