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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2000
Lionel Denecheau, Vence, FR;
Jean Claude Dispensa, St Jeannet, FR;
Denis Esteve, Vence, FR;
Pascal Thubert, Vence, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Auto-adaptive method of load balancing in a data transmission system wherein one active station ( ) amongst a plurality of stations requests the access to the resources of a host ( ), the active station being connected to a connected-oriented network linked to host ( ) by means of a plurality of communication controllers ( ) identified by the station ( ) with the address of host ( ), the connected-oriented network implementing a protocol in which route discovery frames are sent from the station ( ) to all the communication controllers ( ) and response frames are sent back with a predefined delay from each one of the communication controllers to the station ( ), whereby the station ( ) selects the route defined by the first received response frame, this method being characterized in that the delay to apply to the response frame is at each moment dynamically defined by using a logarithmic function of the current number of active stations.