发明名称 |
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. |
申请公布号 |
EP1518368(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2005.03.30 |
申请号 |
EP20020738536 |
申请日期 |
2002.06.28 |
申请人 |
NOKIA CORPORATION |
发明人 |
KOISTINEN, TOMMI;HALMET, KARO;LEPAENAHO, HENRIK |
分类号 |
G06F9/46;H04L12/801;H04L12/803;H04L29/06;H04L29/08;(IPC1-7):H04L12/56 |
主分类号 |
G06F9/46 |
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