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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Rohan Gandhi, Maharashtra, IN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing performance aware MUX selection for traffic in layer-4 load balancing. The methods and systems assign a subset of VIP ranges (VIP shards) to a subset of MUXes based on capacity of the MUXes. The methods and systems allow sources (end-hosts) in the same datacenter (DC) to select the MUXes for intra-DC traffic. The methods and systems allow the sources to use weights calculated by a controller for splitting the traffic across MUXes based on an end-to-end latency of the MUXes. The methods and systems allow the sources to know the MUXes handling the traffic by using packet modification and allow the MUXes to route the packets to reach specific MUXes.