Tracking application scaling for network bandwidth allocation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022116337-A1
Application number	US-202117147724-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 13, 2021
Priority date	Oct 8, 2020
Publication date	Apr 14, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

Techniques for tracking compute capacity of a scalable application service platform to perform dynamic bandwidth allocation for data flows associated with applications hosted by the service platform are disclosed. Some of the techniques may include allocating a first amount of bandwidth of a physical underlay of a network for data flows associated with an application. The techniques may also include receiving, from a scalable application service hosting the application, an indication of an amount of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host the application. Based at least in part on the indications, a second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay to allocate for the data flows may be determined. The techniques may also include allocating the second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay of the network for the data flows associated with the application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
allocating a first amount of bandwidth of a physical underlay of a network for data flows associated with an application; receiving, at a network controller associated with the network and from a scalable application service hosting the application, an indication of an amount of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host the application; determining, based at least in part on the indication, a second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay to allocate for the data flows; and allocating the second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay of the network for the data flows associated with the application.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication of the amount of computing resources comprises an indication of a number of replicas of the application generated by the scalable application service.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, at the network controller, a user defined bandwidth-allocation model specifying respective amounts of bandwidth of the physical underlay to allocate for the data flows based at least in part on respective amounts of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host applications, and wherein determining the second amount of bandwidth is further based at least in part on the bandwidth-allocation model.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the second amount of bandwidth is greater than the first amount of bandwidth such that additional data flows associated with the application can utilize the physical underlay.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein allocating the second amount of bandwidth comprises sending, to an application programming interface (API) associated with the network, a request for the API to allocate the second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay of the network.

6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending, to an application programming interface (API) associated with the scalable application service, a request for the API to provide the indication of the amount of computing resources that are allocated to host the application, and wherein receiving the indication is based at least in part on the request.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the second amount of bandwidth is further based at least in part on a prior amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay that was allocated for the data flows at a time when the amount of the computing resources of the scalable application service were allocated to host the application.

8 . A system comprising:
one or more processors; and one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
allocating a first amount of bandwidth of a physical underlay of a network for data flows associated with an application;
receiving, from a scalable application service hosting the application, an indication of an amount of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host the application;
determining, based at least in part on the indication, a second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay to allocate for the data flows; and
allocating the second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay of the network for the data flows associated with the application.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the indication of the amount of computing resources comprises an indication of a number of replicas of the application generated by the scalable application service.

10 . The system of claim 8 , the operations further comprising receiving a user defined bandwidth-allocation model specifying respective amounts of bandwidth of the physical underlay to allocate for the data flows based at least in part on respective amounts of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host applications, and wherein determining the second amount of bandwidth is further based at least in part on the bandwidth-allocation model.

11 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the second amount of bandwidth is greater than the first amount of bandwidth such that additional data flows associated with the application can utilize the physical underlay.

12 . The system of claim 8 , wherein allocating the second amount of bandwidth comprises sending, to an application programming interface (API) associated with the network, a request for the API to allocate the second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay of the network.

13 . The system of claim 8 , the operations further comprising sending, to an application programming interface (API) associated with the scalable application service, a request for the API to provide the indication of the amount of computing resources that are allocated to host the application, and wherein receiving the indication is based at least in part on the request.

14 . The system of claim 8 , wherein determining the second amount of bandwidth is further based at least in part on a prior amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay that was allocated for the data flows at a time when the amount of the computing resources of the scalable application service were allocated to host the application.

15 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
allocating a first amount of bandwidth of a physical underlay of a network for data flows associated with an application; receiving, from a scalable application service hosting the application, an indication of an amount of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host the application; determining, based at least in part on the indication, that the first amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay is to be increased or decreased; and causing the first amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay to be increased or decreased such that a second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay is allocated for the data flows associated with the application, wherein the second amount of bandwidth comprises more bandwidth or less bandwidth than the first amount of bandwidth.

16 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the indication of the amount of computing resources comprises an indication of a number of replicas of the application generated by the scalable application service.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , the operations further comprising generating a bandwidth-allocation model indicating respective amounts of bandwidth of the physical underlay to allocate for the data flows based at least in part on respective amounts of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host applications, and wherein determining the second amount of bandwidth is further based at least in part on the bandwidth-allocation model.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the indication comprises an indication of a decrease in the amount of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host the application, the operations further comprising:
determining that the first amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay is to be decreased; and causing the first amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay to be decreased such that the second amount of bandwidth

Assignees

• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Jakab Lorand
• Rodriguez Natal Alberto
• Maino Fabio R
• Apostolopoulos John G

Classifications

• H04L41/0896

  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 title

• H04L47/783 Primary

  Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers · CPC title

• H04L47/803 Primary

  Application aware · CPC title

• H04L47/822

  Collecting or measuring resource availability data · CPC title

• G06F9/547

  Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services · CPC title