Method and system for application-aware load balancing
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsSergio AGUIRRE, Raafat Edward KAMEL
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Abstract
An approach for providing application-aware load balancing is provided. A load balancing platform at a base station receives application information specifying an application or type of service utilized by a mobile device and determines allocation of a plurality of carriers based on the received application information to provide load balancing across the plurality of carriers. The platform generates mapping information indicating a mapping of a plurality of applications to one or more of the plurality of carriers, wherein the application information includes the generated mapping information.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- receiving application information specifying an application or type of service utilized by a mobile device;
- and
- determining allocation of a plurality of carriers based on the received application information to provide load balancing across the plurality of carriers.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,
- receive application information specifying an application or type of service utilized by a mobile device;
- and
- determine allocation of a plurality of carriers based on the received application information to provide load balancing across the plurality of carriers.
A system comprising:
- a provisioning engine;
- a base station configured to interface with the provisioning engine,
- wherein the provisioning engine includes a network interface that is coupled to an external network for sending one or more operation and administration (O&M) packets to the base station, the O&M packets comprising application information specifying an application or type of service utilized by a mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.