Patent ID: 11962505
Assignee: MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for balancing traffic load in a network system that includes at least a first leaf switch device communicatively coupled to one or more second leaf switch devices via one or more spine switch devices, the method comprising:
receiving, at the first leaf switch device, respective received traffic quantity information measured by the one or more second leaf switch devices;
for each of multiple paths through the network system, determining, at the first leaf switch device, a respective share of all traffic transmitted via the path corresponding to a particular packet flow being transmitted by the first leaf switch device via the path during a first time interval using received traffic quantity information indicative of a total amount of data received at a respective port of the one or more second leaf switch devices corresponding to the respective path;
determining, by the first leaf switch device, a path from among multiple paths for transmitting the particular flow during a second time interval using the determined shares for the multiple paths; and
transmitting, by the first leaf switch device, one or more packets belonging to the particular packet flow via the determined path during the second time interval.