System and method for aggregating bandwidth of multiple active physical interfaces on application layer

• US 8,832,266 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2011
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Bandyopadhyay, Soma
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tu
• Application Number:
  US13/521,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20130132562A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,292 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/41 by acting on aggregated flows or links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/14 Multichannel or multilink protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/326 in the transport layer [OSI layer 4] H04L69/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

The present invention provides a computationally efficient system and method for aggregation of bandwidth of multiple active physical Interfaces based on an application layer. The said system comprises: a user interface for receiving the user defined input; at least one routing table updater for creating and updating routing table that lists the routes to particular destination of the communication link; at least one control module resides in the application layer of protocol stack; and multiple physical interfaces linked with the application layer for receiving and transmission of the data assigned by the said control module.

Claims

1. A system for dynamically aggregating a plurality of bandwidth of multiple active physical interfaces using an application layer framework, the system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executes;

a) a user interface, adapted for receiving a user defined input to determine IP address and gateway of default and non-default physical interfaces from a routing table;

b) at least one routing table updater, adapted for creating and updating the routing table of multiple active physical interfaces used for bandwidth aggregation based on the determined IP address and gateway of default and non-default physical interfaces; and

c) at least one control module residing in the application layer of a protocol stack, adapted to determine multiple active physical interface joining in bandwidth aggregation, and further adapted for performing data distribution, data transmission, data reception and data assembly among the multiple active physical interfaces by utilizing a plurality of web script, wherein the control module creates operational threads for each interface for performing simultaneous transmission or reception of the data allocated to such threads characterized in that number of operational threads are identical with the number of multiple active physical interfaces.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user defined input comprises of total number of interfaces whose bandwidths to be aggregated, their interface id, default bandwidth or data rates of the interfaces, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or optionally destination of address, mode of operation, file name to be further processed by the physical interfaces.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the routing table updater searches with key word ‘

default’

in the routing table to determine the IP address and IP address of the gateway of the default active physical interfaces.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the routing table updater searches with keyword with the interface identifier including eth0 and pop0 in the routing table and reckons first IP addresses as gateway IP addresses for non default active physical interfaces in the routing table.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control module determines the ratio of data distribution for transmission and reception among the multiple active physical interfaces and keeping the ratio of data division identical to the ratio of default data rates of the multiple active physical interfaces.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control module merges the data received by the interfaces in the local system, the data transmitted to the remote system by using web scripts, with writing and executing access to remote system.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system enhances the data rates for communication to the external network by n times of the data rates using a single physical interface, wherein the n is the number of physical interfaces consisting of identical data rates or bandwidth and communicating with similar network.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the external network comprises of wired or wireless networks, or the combination thereof.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system can aggregate the data rates of multiple physical interfaces of a computing system thereby adding the data rates of the each physical interface.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a transport layer protocols is utilized for implementing the system.

11. A method for dynamically aggregating a plurality of bandwidth of multiple active physical interfaces on an application layer framework, the method comprising processor implemented steps of:

a) determining multiple active physical interfaces via executing command using a routing table updater;

b) determining IP address of the multiple active physical interfaces and the IP address of the gateways by searching the routing table using the routing table updater;

c) creating and updating routing table by adding multiple active physical interfaces along with their gateways for each active physical interface by using the routing table updater;

d) determining ratio of data distribution for transmission and reception of data among the multiple active physical interfaces and keeping the ratio of data division identical to the ratio of default data rates of the multiple active physical interfaces by using a control module;

e) creating multiple operational threads for each of the multiple active physical interfaces by using the control module;

f) distributing the data to each of the multiple active physical interfaces for transmission or reception by using the control module;

g) receiving the data from the multiple active physical interfaces simultaneously by using the control module; and

h) binding each of multiple active physical interfaces with the respective operational thread to join in bandwidth aggregation by using the control module.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising the step of merging the data received by the interfaces in the local system, merging the data transmitted to the same remote system by using web scripts, with writing and executing access to remote system.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the method is independent of any specific network architecture to perform bandwidth aggregation.

14. The method as in claim 11, wherein the multiple active physical interface is bound by their specific IP addresses or interface identifiers by the application layer framework, for facilitating data distributions and coupling with the physical interface in the application layer.

15. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the method is independent of any network proxy or controller, to perform the bandwidth aggregation.

16. The method as claimed in claim 11 wherein the method is independent of any corresponding module, component or counter component like client server architecture at the final system or destination node.

17. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the method is independent of any service level agreement.

18. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the method runs on application layer.

19. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the method enhances the data rates for communication to the external network by n times of the data rates using a single physical interface, wherein the n is the number of physical interfaces consisting of identical data rates or bandwidth and communicating with similar network.

20. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the external network comprises of wired or wireless networks, or the combination thereof.

21. A non-transitory computer program product for dynamically aggregating a plurality of bandwidth of multiple active physical interfaces on an application layer framework, the computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium having a computer executable program code instruction stored therein, the computer executable program code instruction comprising:

a) program code instruction for determining multiple active physical interfaces via executing command using a routing table updater;

b) program code instruction for determining IP address of the multiple active physical interfaces and the IP address of the gateways by searching the routing table using the routing table updater;

c) program code instruction for creating and updating routing table by adding multiple active physical interfaces along with their gateways for each active physical interface by using the routing table updater;

d) program code instruction for determining ratio of data distribution for transmission and reception of data among the multiple active physical interfaces and keeping the ratio of data division identical to the ratio of default data rates of the multiple active physical interfaces by using a control module;

e) program code instruction for creating multiple operational threads for each of the multiple active physical interfaces by using the control module;

f) program code instruction for distributing the data to each of the multiple active physical interfaces for transmission or reception by using the control module;

g) program code instruction for receiving the data from the multiple active physical interfaces simultaneously by using the control module; and

h) program code instruction for binding each of multiple active physical interfaces with the respective operational thread to join in bandwidth aggregation process by using the control module.