An enhanced communication protocol for flexible interconnection

We developed an enhanced communication protocol that connects nodes in a logical ring configuration via a high speed network, circulates service request messages on the network, and controls the fulfillment of these requests and their capture to optimum nodes. This protocol is based on horizontal and vertical migration, from the cooperative processing conventionally enabled by communication between applications, to a lower layer communication protocol. The protocol uses the network as shared memory, and each node can autonomously refer to and modify data shared in communication messages. Such a flexible interconnection like this between clients and servers results in system wide load balancing and enables fault tolerance.