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DETECTING AND HANDLING ELEPHANT FLOWS

  • US 20150163144A1
  • Filed: 03/31/2014
  • Published: 06/11/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program that when executed by at least one processing unit implements a forwarding element, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

  • monitoring data flows associated with a network host to detect an elephant flow; and

    when an elephant flow is detected, generating different header values for packets in the detected elephant flow,wherein the different header values are used to break the elephant flow into several different mouse flows and send each of several of the packets along different paths.

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