Abstract
This publication describes techniques for hierarchical entropy generation to enable traffic-class-aware load balancing of Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet version 2 traffic over Virtual Extensible LAN architectures. A three-level approach generates entropy by calculating an inner source port based on communication channel identifiers, assigning a network identifier based on traffic characteristics, and calculating an outer source port based on the inner source port and the network identifier. These techniques expose fine-grained flow and traffic class information to an underlay network to improve load balancing and network utilization. Keywords: load balancing, entropy generation, traffic classification, multi-path routing, network identifier, encapsulation, high-performance computing.
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N/A, "Hierarchical Entropy Generation for Traffic-Class-Aware Load Balancing", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
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