公开(公告)号：US20190357081A1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-21

申请号：US16030956

申请日：2018-07-10

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Guillaume Gottardi ,  William Mark Townsley ,  Eric Philippe Hamel ,  Yoann Desmouceaux ,  Pierre Pfister

IPC: H04W28/08 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A user plane selection mechanism is provided that leverages an in-band load balancing scheme, e.g., Segment Routing Load Balancing (SRLB). Information in the form of segment identifiers (complemented by metadata) is passed to the components. As a result, the effective user plane function selection can be done in-band at the transport level.