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Optimizing traffic load in a communications network

  • US 8,862,744 B2
  • Filed: 02/14/2012
  • Issued: 10/14/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of optimizing traffic in a communications network, the method comprising:

  • monitoring traffic communicated by a plurality of Virtual Machines (VMs) over one or more paths through the network, each path comprised of one or more constituent links;

    generating a set of candidate VM sites, each candidate VM site comprising an unused VM site in the network;

    generating a set of congested VMs from the plurality of VMs in the network, wherein each congested VM is determined to be communicating with at least one other VM over a path having at least one congested link;

    ranking the congested VMs based on one or more predefined criteria; and

    modeling the migration of one or more congested VMs to one or more candidate VM sites to;

    determine a minimum number of congested VMs to migrate to corresponding candidate VM sites to optimize the traffic through the network; and

    identify which congested VMs to migrate to which candidate VM sites.

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