Increasingly minimal bias routing

Title: Increasingly minimal bias routing

A system and algorithm configured to generate diversity at the traffic source so that packets are uniformly distributed over all of the available paths, but to increase the likelihood of taking a minimal path with each hop the packet takes. This is achieved by configuring routing biases so as to prefer non-minimal paths at the injection point, but increasingly prefer minimal paths as the packet proceeds, referred to herein as Increasing Minimal Bias (IMB).

Inventors:: Bataineh, Abdulla; Court, Thomas; Roweth, Duncan

Issue Date:: 2017-02-21

OSTI Identifier:: 1344415

Assignee:: Cray Inc. OSTI

Patent Number(s):: 9,577,918

Application Number:: 13/681,058

Contract Number:: B580786

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2012 Nov 19

Research Org:: Cray Inc. Seattle, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

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