Client Traffic Management Logic for Multipath Congestion Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multipath traffic management systems face challenges in ensuring timely and efficient network traffic policy implementation at client devices, as they rely on periodic policy updates from service providers, which may not reflect current network conditions, leading to increased communication overhead and power consumption.
Innovation Solution
A system where client traffic management logic at the service provider server captures flow data to identify network traffic flows, selects appropriate traffic policies, and triggers their implementation by adjusting allowable throughput, allowing real-time congestion management without requiring client device cooperation or additional communication overhead.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If periodic policy updates are sent from service provider to client device, then traffic policy implementation is achieved, but communication overhead and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The client device is empowered to autonomously monitor network conditions and implement traffic policies locally without requiring periodic updates from the service provider. The device uses its own sensors and network interface to detect congestion levels and automatically adjusts traffic distribution, eliminating the need for continuous communication and reducing power consumption while maintaining reliable policy implementation
2Reliability
If periodic policy updates are sent from service provider to client device, then traffic policy implementation is achieved, but communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the traffic policy implementation function from the service provider's control domain and relocates it to the client device. By removing the need for periodic policy update communications and enabling local autonomous decision-making, the solution eliminates unnecessary data transmission while ensuring traffic policies are effectively implemented at the network edge
3Ease of operation
If client device implements local traffic balancing, then traffic distribution is achieved, but response time to network condition changes is delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The client device continuously monitors network conditions through feedback from network interfaces and congestion indicators. This real-time feedback mechanism enables the device to detect changes in network status immediately and dynamically adjust traffic distribution without delay, achieving both ease of operation and rapid response time simultaneously
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AI summary
One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes client traffic management (CTM) logic. The CTM logic is to trigger implementation of a selected network traffic flow related to the client device, the triggering based, at least in part, on a network traffic flow related to the client device. The network traffic flow is associated with a connection and includes at least one subflow. Each subflow is carried by a respective path associated with the connection. The triggering includes at least one of constraining and/or adjusting an allowable throughput at a service provider for one or more of the at least one subflow. The selected traffic policy is to be implemented in a transport layer.