Patent ID: 11882028
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A first router, comprising:
at least one transceiver, configured to receive packets; and
a processor, configured to:
determine at least one destination router according to a packet load balancing rule;

determine at least two destination routers to transmit the packets according to the packet load balancing rule, wherein at least two routers are located in a same local area network, each router of the at least two routers is configured to communicate with an external network, the at least two routers comprise the first router, wherein the at least two destination routers comprise the first router and a second router, and wherein the second router is a neighboring node router of the first router, and the neighboring node router of the first router is a router directly connected to the first router;
determine a quantity of neighboring nodes of the first router;
determine a number of reachable nodes for each of the neighboring nodes; and
determine that the packet load balancing rule is:
the first router sends a first portion of the packets received by the first router to the external network, and
the first router sends the remaining packets to the neighboring nodes, wherein a number of remaining packets sent to each neighboring node is proportional to its respective determined number of reachable nodes.