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公开(公告)号:US11418435B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-16
申请号:US16860896
申请日:2020-04-28
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam , Francois Clad , Pablo Camarillo Garvia , Kiran Sasidharan Pillai
Abstract: The present technology pertains to a group-based network policy using Segment Routing over an IPv6 dataplane (SRv6). After a source application sends a packet, an ingress node can receive the packet, and if the source node is capable, it can identify an application policy and apply it. The ingress node indicates that the policy has been applied by including policy bits in the packet encapsulation. When the packet is received by the egress node, it can determine whether the policy was already applied, and if so, the packet is forward to the destination application. If the egress node determines that the policy has not be applied the destination application can apply the policy. Both the ingress node and egress nodes can learn of source application groups, destination application groups, and applicable policies through communication with aspects of the segment routing fabric.
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公开(公告)号:US11283906B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-22
申请号:US16697134
申请日:2019-11-26
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Patrice Brissette , Clarence Filsfils , Darren Dukes , Gaurav Dawra , Francois Clad , Pablo Camarillo Garvia
IPC: H04L29/06 , H04L69/22 , H04L69/324 , H04L45/00 , H04L67/10 , H04L45/50 , H04L12/46 , H04L45/74 , H04L61/5007 , H04L49/35 , H04L67/63 , H04L45/741 , H04L101/659 , H04L61/2503 , H04L43/028 , H04L45/745
Abstract: In one embodiment, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is implemented using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) underlay network and SRv6-enhanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling. A particular route associated with a particular Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) Segment Identifier (SID) is advertised in a particular route advertisement message of a routing protocol (e.g., BGP). The SID includes encoding representing a particular Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) Layer 2 (L2) flooding Segment Routing end function of the particular router and a particular Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI), with the particular SID including a routable prefix to the particular router. The particular router receives a particular packet including the particular SID; and in response, the particular router performs the particular EVPN end function on the particular packet.
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公开(公告)号:US20220029916A1
公开(公告)日:2022-01-27
申请号:US17492532
申请日:2021-10-01
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Pablo Camarillo Garvia
IPC: H04L12/741 , H04L12/26 , H04L12/751 , H04L29/06
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a packet tracing mechanism will be described that provides packet tracing information to a mobile network controller. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a data packet sent from a source node to a destination node; determining if the data packet is to be updated with packet tracing information; and upon determining that the data packet is to be updated, updating the packet tracing information of the data packet to include identification of the network device and an ingress timestamp of the data packet at the network device for a corresponding network controller to determining network routing policies.
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公开(公告)号:US11095559B1
公开(公告)日:2021-08-17
申请号:US16574501
申请日:2019-09-18
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Pablo Camarillo Garvia , Ravi Shekhar
IPC: H04L12/749 , H04L12/721 , H04W40/12 , H04L12/725
Abstract: A user plane function (UPF) for use in a mobile network may receive an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) data packet which includes a segment routing header and a payload containing user plane (UP) traffic data associated with a user equipment (UE). The segment routing header may indicate a list of segment identifiers comprising IPv6 addresses. Each first address portion of an IPv6 address may indicate a location of a corresponding UPF in a set of UPFs which define a forwarding path of the IPv6 data packet in the mobile network. Each second address portion of an IPv6 address may indicate one or more rules, actions, or parameters (e.g. forwarding action rules, buffering action rules, etc.) to be applied to the IPv6 data packet at the corresponding UPF in the set of UPFs indicated by the first address portion that is associated with the second address portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20210152470A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-20
申请号:US16684006
申请日:2019-11-14
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Pablo Camarillo Garvia
IPC: H04L12/741 , H04L12/751 , H04L29/06 , H04L12/26
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a packet tracing mechanism will be described that provides packet tracing information to a mobile network controller. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a data packet sent from a source node to a destination node; determining if the data packet is to be updated with packet tracing information; and upon determining that the data packet is to be updated, updating the packet tracing information of the data packet to include identification of the network device and an ingress timestamp of the data packet at the network device for a corresponding network controller to determining network routing policies.
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公开(公告)号:US10932136B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-23
申请号:US16456616
申请日:2019-06-28
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Zafar Ali , Pablo Camarillo Garvia
IPC: H04W16/02 , H04L12/24 , H04L12/721 , H04L12/863 , H04L12/911
Abstract: Resource rationing for network slices in segment routing networks may be provided. A network slice may be created in a communication network. A portion of network resource may be dedicated to the network slice. The dedicated portion of network resource may be bound to the network slice using a segment identifier. The segment identifier may be advertised to the communication network. Data packets associated with the network slice may be routed using the dedicated portion of network resource.
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公开(公告)号:US20200244588A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-30
申请号:US16825168
申请日:2020-03-20
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Zafar Ali , Pablo Camarillo Garvia , Francois Clad
IPC: H04L12/863 , H04L12/911 , H04L12/851 , H04L12/801 , H04L12/26
Abstract: The present technology is directed to a system and method for implementing network resource partitioning and Quality of Service (QoS) separation through network slicing. Embodiments of the present invention describe scalable network slicing method based on defining Segment Routing Flexible Algorithm to represent a network slice and assigning a distinct QoS policy queue to each of the Flexible Algorithms configured on a network node. Therefore, scalable network slice based queuing is implemented wherein a single packet processing queue is assigned to each Flex-Algorithm based network slice. QoS policy queue may be implemented in a hierarchical fashion by differentiation between flow packets in a single QoS policy queue based on value of experimental bits in the header.
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公开(公告)号:US12267233B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-01
申请号:US17538513
申请日:2021-11-30
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Pablo Camarillo Garvia , Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam , Francois Clad
IPC: H04L45/00 , H04L45/302 , H04L45/74
Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media to encode network functions in a packet header. A method includes receiving a first packet from a source device that is to be delivered to a destination address through a network; determining a route to the destination address; identifying at least one network function for the first packet; encapsulating the first packet in a second packet, wherein a header of the second packet includes the route to the destination address in a destination address field and local processing metadata associated with the at least one network function in a source address field; and forwarding the second packet to a next network node of the network identified in the destination address.
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公开(公告)号:US20250062984A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-20
申请号:US18934224
申请日:2024-10-31
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam , Rakesh Gandhi , Jisu Bhattacharya , Pablo Camarillo Garvia
Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for detecting and monitoring paths in a network. The techniques include causing a source node to generate probe packets to traverse a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network, for instance. In some examples, the probe packets include entropy values that correspond to individual equal-cost multi-path (ECMP) paths of the network. The probe packets may be received at an SDN controller from a sink node after traversing the network. Analysis of the probe packets allow path discovery and mapping of the entropy values to ECMP paths. The mapping of discovered paths may be used for optimization of network monitoring activities, including second subsequent probe packets over particular ECMP paths based on the mapped entropy values.
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公开(公告)号:US12206573B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17691016
申请日:2022-03-09
Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam , Rakesh Gandhi , Jisu Bhattacharya , Pablo Camarillo Garvia
Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for detecting and monitoring paths in a network. The techniques include causing a source node to generate probe packets to traverse a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network, for instance. In some examples, the probe packets include entropy values that correspond to individual equal-cost multi-path (ECMP) paths of the network. The probe packets may be received at an SDN controller from a sink node after traversing the network. Analysis of the probe packets allow path discovery and mapping of the entropy values to ECMP paths. The mapping of discovered paths may be used for optimization of network monitoring activities, including second subsequent probe packets over particular ECMP paths based on the mapped entropy values.
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