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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Iwata, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Okada, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Tsuchiya, Tokyo, JP;
Shunsuke Homma, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuma Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A load distribution system has: determination means for determining, upon an input port receiving a packet, a flow attribute indicating whether a flow configured by the packet is a flow that tends to include many long packets or a flow that tends to include many short packets; and output means for outputting the packet to a packet transfer device in a load state indicating that a load applied by the flow of the flow attribute is low, of a plurality of packet transfer devices, in accordance with the flow attribute determined by the determination means.