LOAD BALANCING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

A method of balancing the load of resources in a packet switched connection within a communication system, said system comprising processing units ( 11; 21 ) for performing communication, at least one load balancing unit ( 12; 22 ) for distributing the load to said processing units ( 11; 21 ), and a data storage ( 14; 24 ), said method comprising the steps of: obtaining a current connection state as well as a current load state of said processing units from said data storage ( 14; 24 ); selecting by said load balancing unit ( 12; 22 ) a processing unit on a per-packet basis; and maintaining information about the load state of each processing unit ( 11; 21 ) so that said selecting step is performed by selecting a processing unit to serve and process a respective packet based on the load state.