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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2010
Deepak Bansal, Redmond, WA (US);
Hasan Alkhatib, Kirkland, WA (US);
Deepak Bansal, Redmond, WA (US);
Hasan Alkhatib, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Computerized methods, systems, and computer-storage media for establishing and managing a transmission control protocol (TCP)-based tunnel ('tunnel') are provided. The tunnel spans between a data center and a private enterprise network and connects endpoints, of a service application, that reside in each location. During communication, the endpoints transmit data packets over one or more channels (e.g., higher-level channel and lower-level channel) that comprise the tunnel. Each of the channels supports reliability mechanisms (e.g., congestion-control mechanism and loss-recovery mechanism) integrally running thereon, for ensuring complete data-packet delivery. To prevent unwarranted performance degradation caused by duplicative efforts of reliability mechanisms, a fabric controller is employed to selectively disable one or more of the reliability mechanisms individually. The selective disablement of the reliability mechanisms is invoked by predefined criteria, such as instructions from a service model or detected identity of a source/destination endpoint, and is invoked on a per network connection basis.