Transport cost optimization for enterprise service

摘要

A communication controller optimizes transport costs so as to minimize the cost of transmitting message. The communication controller receives a message and calculates the cost of transmitting the message based on a setup cost and a transmission cost. The communications controller selects a communication pathway that has the least cost as the pathway to transmit the message. If the pathway is not established, the communications controller establishes this communication pathway and transmits the message.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
calculating, by a communications device, a cost of transmitting an enterprise service bus message for each of a plurality of available communication pathways, wherein the plurality of available communication pathways comprises established and unestablished communication pathways, wherein an established pathway comprises the communications device having been setup to communicate over a Wi-Fi communication pathway, and wherein an unestablished pathway has to be setup prior to communicating an enterprise service bus message, and a cost of an unestablished communication pathway comprises a cost to establish that communication pathway; determining a cost for transmitting a control message for a control communication pathway; transmitting the control message over the control communication pathway when the cost for transmitting the control message is below a threshold; and selecting one of the plurality of available communication pathways to transmit the enterprise service bus message using the transmitted control message, wherein the selected communication pathway has a lowest one of the plurality of calculated costs.