Load balancing of distributed media agents in a conference system

摘要

A load balancer controls a cluster of media agents each configured to perform media packet processing operations in a conference session. The load balancer receives a Session Traversal Utilities for Network Address Translation/Translator (NAT) (STUN) request from a caller to establish media. The STUN request includes a conference identifier (ID) for the session. The load balancer determines an availability of each of the media agents in the cluster, selects a media agent for the caller based on the conference ID and the determined media agent availabilities, forwards the STUN request to the selected media agent, and routes media packets between the caller and the selected agent for the session.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
at a load balancer configured to control a cluster of media agents each configured to perform media packet processing operations in a conference session:
receiving a Session Traversal Utilities for Network Address Translation/Translator (NAT) (STUN) request from a caller to establish media, the STUN request including a conference identifier (ID) for the conference session;determining an availability of each of the media agents in the cluster;selecting a media agent for the caller based on the conference ID and the determined media agent availabilities;forwarding the STUN request to the selected media agent; androuting media packets between the caller and the selected media agent for the conference session.