RELAY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20130246507A1
• Filed: 01/08/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: AMEMIYA, Kouichirou
• Granted Patent: US 8,984,055 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams

Abstract

A relay device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including storing association relationship information in which a session identifier for identifying a session established between a server and a client by a program running on the server is associated with a server identifier for identifying the server. The process includes determining whether a session identifier contained in a message received from a distributing device is contained in the association relationship information stored at the storing. The process includes selecting a relay system used when the received message is transferred to the server in accordance with a program that has established a session indicated by the session identifier contained in the message. The process includes transferring the message by using the relay system selected at the selecting.

Claims

1. A relay device comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising;

storing association relationship information in which a session identifier for identifying a session established between a server and a client by a program running on the server is associated with a server identifier for identifying the server to the memory;

determining whether a session identifier contained in a message received from a distributing device is contained in the association relationship information stored at the storing;

selecting, when it is determined at the determining that the session identifier contained in the received message is not contained in the association relationship information, a relay system used when the received message is transferred to the server in accordance with a program that has established a session indicated by the session identifier contained in the message; and

transferring the message by using the relay system selected at the selecting.

2. The relay device according to claim 1, wherein the selecting includes selecting the relay system in accordance with the update frequency of the session indicated by the session identifier contained in the message.

3. The relay device according to claim 1, wherein the selecting includes selecting a method for the relay system from among a method for synchronizing association relationship information stored in multiple relay devices, each of which transfers a message to multiple servers, and for transferring the message received by each of the relay devices to the servers, a method for transferring a message to another relay device that stores therein the association relationship information containing the session identifier contained in the received message and for transferring the message to a server by the relay device that corresponds to the transfer destination of the message, a method for querying the other relay device that stores therein the association relationship information containing the session identifier contained in the received message about a server that is associated with the session identifier and for transferring the message to a server notified as a query result, and a method for transferring the message to the server notified as the query result and for caching the server notified as the query result.

4. The relay device according to claim 3, wherein

the processor executes the process further comprising calculating, by using the update frequency of the session, the amount of resources consumed when the association relationship information is synchronized, the amount of resources consumed when the message is transferred to the other relay device, and the amount of resources consumed when a query about the server is sent, calculates the throughput obtained when each relay system is operated;

wherein

the selecting includes selecting the method for relay system having the maximum throughput calculated at the calculating.

5. The relay device according to claim 4, wherein

the processor executes the process further comprising measuring the update frequency of a session updated by the program, the amount of resources consumed when the association relationship information is synchronized, the amount of resources consumed when the message is transferred to the other relay device, and the amount of resources consumed when the query about the server is sent, wherein

the calculating includes calculating, by using the update frequency and the amount of resources measured at the measuring, the throughput obtained when each relay system is operated.

6. The relay device according to claim 1, wherein

the determining includes determining, when the relay device received a response to the message transferred at the transferring from the server, whether there is, contained in the association relationship information, information in which a session identifier contained in the response is associated with a response-source server, and

the selecting includes selecting, when it is determined at the determining that there is not the information in which the session identifier contained in the response is associated with the response-source server, a relay system used for transferring the message containing the session identifier to the server in accordance with the program that has established the session indicated by the session identifier.

7. The relay device according to claim 6, wherein

the transferring includes transferring, when it is determined at the determining that there is, contained in the association relationship information, the information in which the session identifier contained in the response is associated with the response-source server, the response to a client that has issued a message that is the source of the response or to the other relay device that corresponds to a transfer source of the message that is the source of the response.

8. The relay device according to claim 1, wherein

the selecting includes creating relay system selecting information in which a relay system that is selected for the message containing the session identifier is associated with the program that has established the session indicated by the session identifier, and

the transferring includes:

identifying, when it is determined at the determining that the session identifier is not contained in the association relationship information, a relay system associated with the program that has established the session indicated by the session identifier from the relay system selecting information; and

transferring the message by using the identified relay system.

9. An information processing system comprising:

multiple servers each of which provides a service to a client;

multiple relay devices each of which transfers, when a message issued by the client is received, the received message to one of the servers; and

a distributing device that distributes the message issued by the client to each of the relay devices, wherein

each of the relay devices includes;

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising;

storing association relationship information in which a session identifier for identifying a session established between a server and the client by a program running on the server is associated with the server identifier for identifying the server to the memory;

determining whether a session identifier contained in a message received from the distributing device is contained in the association relationship information stored at the storing;

selecting, when it is determined at the determining that the session identifier contained in the received message is not contained in the association relationship information, a relay system used when the received message is transferred to the server in accordance with a program that has established a session indicated by the session identifier contained in the message, and

transferring the message by using the relay system selected at the selecting.

10. A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a relay process comprising:

determining, by a storage device that stores therein association relationship information in which a session identifier for identifying a session established between a server and a client by a program running on the server is associated with a server identifier for identifying the server, whether a session identifier contained in a message received from a distributing device is stored;

selecting, when it is determined at the determining that the session identifier contained in the received message is not stored in the storage device, a relay system used when the received message is transferred to the server in accordance with a program that has established a session indicated by the session identifier contained in the message; and

transferring the message by using the relay system selected at the selecting.