[go: up one dir, main page]

Zhang et al., 2000 - Google Patents

Linux virtual server for scalable network services

Zhang et al., 2000

View PDF
Document ID
9131444143455268294
Author
Zhang W
et al.
Publication year
Publication venue
Ottawa Linux Symposium

External Links

Snippet

This paper describes the motivation, design, internal implementation of Linux Virtual Server. The goal of Linux Virtual Server is to provide a basic framework to build highly scalable and highly available network services using a large cluster of commodity servers. The TCP/IP …
Continue reading at vergenet.net (PDF) (other versions)

Classifications

    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications
    • H04L67/10—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1002—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers, e.g. load balancing
    • H04L67/1004—Server selection in load balancing
    • H04L67/1023—Server selection in load balancing based on other criteria, e.g. hash applied to IP address, specific algorithms or cost
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications
    • H04L67/10—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1002—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers, e.g. load balancing
    • H04L67/1004—Server selection in load balancing
    • H04L67/1014—Server selection in load balancing based on the content of a request
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications
    • H04L67/10—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1002—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers, e.g. load balancing
    • H04L67/1004—Server selection in load balancing
    • H04L67/1017—Server selection in load balancing based on a round robin mechanism
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications
    • H04L67/10—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1002—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers, e.g. load balancing
    • H04L67/1004—Server selection in load balancing
    • H04L67/1008—Server selection in load balancing based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L29/00—Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04L1/00 - H04L27/00 contains provisionally no documents
    • H04L29/02—Communication control; Communication processing contains provisionally no documents
    • H04L29/06—Communication control; Communication processing contains provisionally no documents characterised by a protocol
    • H04L29/0602—Protocols characterised by their application
    • H04L29/06047—Protocols for client-server architecture
    • H04L2029/06054—Access to distributed or replicated servers, e.g. using brokers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications
    • H04L67/10—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1002—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers, e.g. load balancing
    • H04L67/1031—Controlling of the operation of servers by a load balancer, e.g. adding or removing servers that serve requests
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications
    • H04L67/10—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1002—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers, e.g. load balancing
    • H04L67/1038—Load balancing arrangements to avoid a single path through a load balancer
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications
    • H04L67/10—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1002—Network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers, e.g. load balancing
    • H04L67/1036—Load balancing of requests to servers for services different from user content provisioning, e.g. load balancing to DNS servers or firewalls
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Application independent communication protocol aspects or techniques in packet data networks
    • H04L69/30—Definitions, standards or architectural aspects of layered protocol stacks
    • H04L69/32—High level architectural aspects of 7-layer open systems interconnection [OSI] type protocol stacks
    • H04L69/322—Aspects of intra-layer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L29/00—Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04L1/00 - H04L27/00 contains provisionally no documents
    • H04L29/12—Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04L1/00 - H04L27/00 contains provisionally no documents characterised by the data terminal contains provisionally no documents
    • H04L29/12009—Arrangements for addressing and naming in data networks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L61/00—Network arrangements or network protocols for addressing or naming
    • H04L61/35—Network arrangements or network protocols for addressing or naming involving non-standard use of addresses for implementing network functionalities, e.g. coding subscription information within the address or functional addressing, i.e. assigning an address to a function
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Application independent communication protocol aspects or techniques in packet data networks
    • H04L69/16—Transmission control protocol/internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP]
    • H04L69/161—Implementation details of TCP/IP or UDP/IP stack architecture; Specification of modified or new header fields
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Application independent communication protocol aspects or techniques in packet data networks
    • H04L69/40—Techniques for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. failover routines, service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection in case of a failure or disaster recovery
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L45/00—Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L12/00—Data switching networks
    • H04L12/54—Store-and-forward switching systems
    • H04L12/56—Packet switching systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L63/00—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L49/00—Packet switching elements

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
Zhang Linux virtual server for scalable network services
Hunt et al. Network dispatcher: A connection router for scalable internet services
Gan et al. LSMAC vs. LSNAT: Scalable cluster‐based Web servers
Yang et al. EFFICIENTSUPPORTFORCO NTENT-BASED ROUTINGINWEBSERVERCLU STERS
US7353276B2 (en) Bi-directional affinity
Damani et al. ONE-IP: Techniques for hosting a service on a cluster of machines
Cardellini et al. The state of the art in locally distributed web-server systems
US7363347B2 (en) Method and system for reestablishing connection information on a switch connected to plural servers in a computer network
US6470389B1 (en) Hosting a network service on a cluster of servers using a single-address image
US6496866B2 (en) System and method for providing dynamically alterable computer clusters for message routing
CA2319436C (en) Cross-platform server clustering using a network flow switch
Yeom et al. IP Multiplexing by Transparent Port-Address Translator.
US7380002B2 (en) Bi-directional affinity within a load-balancing multi-node network interface
US20030101275A1 (en) Information processing system accessed through network and control method of packet transfer load
Zhang et al. Creating Linux virtual servers
Rawal et al. Split protocol client/server architecture
Goldszmidt et al. Netdispatcher: A tcp connection router
US20030179775A1 (en) Service delivery network system and method
Vaidya et al. A single system image server cluster using duplicated MAC and IP addresses
US7228562B2 (en) Stream server apparatus, program, and NAS device
Zhang et al. LinuxDirector: A connection director for scalable internet services
Zhang et al. Linux virtual server clusters
Zhang et al. Scaling Internet Services by LinuxDirector
Yang et al. An effective mechanism for supporting content-based routing in scalable Web server clusters
Yang et al. Efficient content placement and management on cluster-based Web servers