Traffic engineering of cloud services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9912563-B2
Application number	US-201414337442-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 22, 2014
Priority date	Jul 22, 2014
Publication date	Mar 6, 2018
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018

Abstract

Traffic engineering of cloud services include receiving, by an enterprise network agent of an enterprise network, a policy from an operator of the enterprise network and transmitting, by a processor, the policy to a cloud service provider. Aspects also include monitoring an incoming traffic to the enterprise network from the cloud service provider and collecting data regarding the incoming traffic and transmitting collected data regarding the incoming traffic to the cloud service provider.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for traffic engineering of cloud services comprises: receiving, by an enterprise network agent of an enterprise network, a policy from an operator of the enterprise network; transmitting, by a processor, the policy to a cloud service provider, wherein the enterprise network includes a plurality of border routers that are configured to communicate with the cloud service provider via at least two internet service providers; monitoring an incoming traffic to the enterprise network from the cloud service provider and collecting data regarding the incoming traffic; and transmitting, by the processor, collected data regarding the incoming traffic to the cloud service provider, wherein the policy includes a desired distribution of the incoming traffic to the enterprise network among the plurality of border routers and among the at least two internet service providers and quality of service requirements for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network, and wherein the desired distribution is configured to minimize a maximum link utilization for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network, minimize a ratio load to capacity for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network or to minimize transit costs from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the policy includes one or more rules that govern the transmission of data from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the collected data includes at least one or more of the following a bandwidth, a latency and a jitter of a data transmission path that the incoming traffic was transmitted over.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmission cost is associated with incoming traffic over each of the at least two internet service providers and wherein the transmission cost of the at least two internet service providers are different.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising updating the policy based on the collected data and transmitting the updated policy to the cloud service provider.

6. A computer program product for traffic engineering of cloud services, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: receiving, by an enterprise network agent of an enterprise network, a policy from an operator of the enterprise network; transmitting the policy to a cloud service provider, wherein the enterprise network includes a plurality of border routers that are configured to communicate with the cloud service provider via at least two internet service providers; monitoring an incoming traffic to the enterprise network from the cloud service provider and collecting data regarding the incoming traffic; and transmitting collected data regarding the incoming traffic to the cloud service provider, wherein the policy includes a desired distribution of the incoming traffic to the enterprise network among the plurality of border routers and among the at least two internet service providers and quality of service requirements for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network, and wherein the desired distribution is configured to minimize a maximum link utilization for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network, minimize a ratio load to capacity for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network or to minimize transit costs from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network.

7. The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein the policy includes one or more rules that govern the transmission of data from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network.

8. The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein the collected data includes at least one or more of the following a bandwidth, a latency and a jitter of a data transmission path that the incoming traffic was transmitted over.

9. The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein a transmission cost is associated with incoming traffic over each of the at least two internet service providers and wherein the transmission cost of the at least two internet service providers are different.

10. The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein the method further comprises updating the policy based on the collected data and transmitting the updated policy to the cloud service provider.

11. A processing system for traffic engineering of cloud services, the processing system comprising: a processor coupled with a memory, wherein the processor is in communication with a storage device and a network adapter, the processing system configured to perform a method comprising: receiving a policy from an operator of an enterprise network; transmitting the policy to a cloud service provider, wherein the enterprise network includes a plurality of border routers that are configured to communicate with the cloud service provider via at least two internet service providers; monitoring an incoming traffic to the enterprise network from the cloud service provider and collecting data regarding the incoming traffic; and transmitting collected data regarding the incoming traffic to the cloud service provider, wherein the policy includes a desired distribution of the incoming traffic to the enterprise network among the plurality of border routers and among the at least two internet service providers and quality of service requirements for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network, and wherein the desired distribution is configured to minimize a maximum link utilization for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network, minimize a ratio load to capacity for each communications channel from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network or to minimize transit costs from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network.

12. The processing system of claim 11 , wherein the policy includes one or more rules that govern the transmission of data from the cloud service provider to the enterprise network.

13. The processing system of claim 11 , wherein the collected data includes at least one or more of the following a bandwidth, a latency and a jitter of a data transmission path that the incoming traffic was transmitted over.

14. The processing system of claim 11 , wherein a transmission cost is associated with incoming traffic over each of the at least two internet service providers and wherein the transmission cost of the at least two internet service providers are different.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Agrawal Dakshi
• Cornejo William
• Le Thai V
• Srivatsa Mudhakar

Classifications

• H04L43/087 Primary

  Jitter · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title