Detecting and handling elephant flows

T Koponen, J Pettit, M Casado, B Davie… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that detects and handles elephant flows.
In detecting, the for warding element of some embodiments monitors statistics or …

Inspecting operations of a machine to detect elephant flows

WA Lambeth, AV Patil, PS Dabak, LV Gunda… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a system that detects whether a data flow is an elephant flow;
and if so, the system treats it differently than a mouse flow. The system of some …

Detecting an elephant flow based on the size of a packet

J Pettit, M Casado, T Koponen, B Davie… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that inspects the size of each of several
packets in a data flow to determine whether the data flow is an elephant flow. The forwarding …

Automatic rate limiting based on explicit network congestion notification in smart network interface card

S Borikar, JW Marshall - US Patent 10,785,161, 2020 - Google Patents
A method is provided by which a network adapter device receives a packet sent over a
network from a peer, the packet including an enqueue timestamp indicating when the packet …

Reporting elephant flows to a network controller

J Pettit, M Casado, T Koponen, B Davie… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a system that detects whether a flow is an elephant flow; and if
so, the system treats it differently than a mouse flow. The system of some embodiment detect …

Monitoring and optimizing interhost network traffic

X Qi, F Kavathia, C Raman, S Shah, R Koganty… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for clustering a set of data compute nodes (DCNs),
which communicate with each other more frequently, on one or more host machines. The …

System and method for facilitating tracer packets in a data-driven intelligent network

AM Ford, TJ Johnson, AM Bataineh - US Patent 12,034,633, 2024 - Google Patents
A data-driven intelligent networking system that can facilitate tracing of data flow packets is
provided. The system add tracer packets to data flow packets arriving at an ingress point of …

Dragonfly routing with incomplete group connectivity

EL Froese - US Patent 11,985,060, 2024 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are provided for managing a data communication within a
multi-level network having a plurality of switches organized as groups, with each group …

Data transfer between endpoints using a multipath connection

AK Sreeramoju, M Ravi, B Basler - US Patent 10,097,465, 2018 - Google Patents
Example methods are provided to perform data transfer between a first endpoint and a
second endpoint. The method may comprise detecting an elephant flow of data from an …

Hardware acceleration techniques using flow selection

G Aditi, S Murali - US Patent 11,962,518, 2024 - Google Patents
In some embodiments, a method receives a packet for a flow associated with a workload.
Based on an indicator for the flow, the method determines whether the flow corresponds to …