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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2015
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Prasad Jogalekar, San Jose, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Muhammad Durrani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ram Krishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mukhtiar Shaikh, San Jose, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for end-to-end network bandwidth optimization using software defined networking are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can receive information regarding a flow to be admitted to a network, where the flow is associated with a source and a destination. The computer system can further calculate, for each path in a plurality of paths between the source and the destination, a projected utilization of the path in view of the flow. If the projected utilization of the shortest path in the plurality of paths is less than or equal to a target utilization threshold, the computer system can assign the flow to the shortest path. Otherwise, the computer system can select a path in the plurality of paths that comes closest to the target utilization threshold without exceeding the threshold and can assign the flow to that selected path.