Method and apparatus for managing connection path failure between data centers for cloud computing
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsDoyeon KIM, Taesang CHOI
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Abstract
A first cloud computing data center and a second cloud computing data center are connected through a provider backbone bridge network (PBBN), and a plurality of working connection paths and protection connection paths are formed between end points between the first cloud computing data center and the second cloud computing data center and between end points within a cloud computing data center through the PBBN. When a failure occurs in the working connection path, the working connection path is switched to a corresponding protection connection path.
Claims10
A method of managing a connection path failure,
- wherein a first cloud computing data center and a second cloud computing data center are connected through a provider backborn bridge network (PBBN),
- the method comprising:
- forming a plurality of working connection paths and protection connection paths between end points between the first cloud computing data center and the second cloud computing data center through the PBBN and between end points within the cloud computing data center;
- exchanging a test message between the end points;
- determining that a failure has occurred at a corresponding working connection path when the test message is not received at a random end point;
- and
- switching the working connection path in which a failure has occurred to the protection connection path.
An apparatus that manages a connection path failure at a random end point that is positioned within a cloud computing data center,
- wherein the cloud computing data center is connected to another data center through a PBBN, and
- a plurality of working connection paths and protection connection paths are formed between end points within the cloud computing data center or between end points of the other data center through the PBBN,
- the apparatus comprising:
- a message exchange unit that exchanges a test message with an end point that is connected to a corresponding working connection path through the working connection path;
- a failure generation check unit that determines that a failure has occurred in a corresponding working connection path when the test message is not received from the connected end point;
- and
- a path switching unit that switches the working connection path in which a failure has occurred to the protection connection path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.