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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, TX (US);
Thomas W. Anderson, Naperville, IL (US);
Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, TX (US);
Thomas W. Anderson, Naperville, IL (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Various methods are provided to address the need for improved load balancing. In a one method, a packet loss is determined () for traffic sent between a first network node and a second network node. The determined packet loss is then used to determine () whether to perform load balancing. In another method, a first network node receives a request from a neighboring network node for a current loading status of the first network node. The first network node sends to the neighboring network node an indication of a backhaul loading level of the first network node.