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

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving packets, by a first router, wherein the first router is a router of at least two routers in a same local area network, and each router of the at least two routers is configured to communicate with an external network;
determining, by the first router, at least two destination routers to transmit the packets according to a packet load balancing rule, 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;
determining, by the first router, a quantity of neighboring nodes of the first router;
determining, by the first router, a number of reachable nodes for each of the neighboring nodes; and
determining, by the first router, 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.