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Server Load Balancing Using Adaptive Routing on an MPLS Enabled Network

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Overview As companies demand greater scalability, performance, and availability from their network-based solutions, server load balancing continues to grow in importance. Today a variety of techniques are used to perform load balancing. Two of the most popular are round-robin DNS and content switching. This paper proposes a new load-balancing technique which uses adaptive routing on an MPLS-enabled network. The paper proposes that service requests destined for a web cluster be distributed across the mirrored servers by changing dynamically the route cost metrics. MPLS's ability to create pinned label-switched paths is used to maintain session persistence. This paper presents the architecture and operation of this new load-balancing technique.

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Publisher	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Load Balancing, Switching, MPLS

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