Patent ID: 11876715
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A load balancing method, comprising:
receiving a load probe packet from a source end; and
forwarding the load probe packet to a destination end through a probe channel on a current target path, wherein the current target path is a path with a lightest load in n paths between the source end and the destination end and is based on load statuses of respective probe channels on the n paths, wherein the probe channel is for transmitting a probe packet, wherein the probe packet comprises a bandwidth probe packet, wherein n is an integer greater than 1, wherein a first quantity of the n paths is less than a second quantity of all paths between the source end and the destination end, and wherein the n paths correspond to m randomly selected paths that are randomly selected from the all paths plus one or more d paths that were used as a previous target path such that the first quantity of the n paths is equal to a third quantity of the m randomly selected paths plus a fourth quantity of the one or more d paths.