NSH encapsulation for traffic steering

    公开(公告)号:US11240065B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-01

    申请号:US17020787

    申请日:2020-09-14

    IPC分类号: G06F15/16 H04L12/46

    摘要: A method for establishing a tunnel between VTEPs includes receiving at an SDN controller a tunnel creation request to establish a VxLAN tunnel from a first VTEP to a second VTEP, determining a VxLAN tunnel of network nodes coupling the first VTEP to the second VTEP, assigning a SvcPI to the VxLAN tunnel, and sending a tunnel initiation command to the first VTEP, the tunnel initiation command causing the first VTEP to convert an Ethernet frame to a path-ID frame by adding an NSH encapsulation header and to forward the path-ID frame to the next network node in the VxLAN tunnel.

    Telemetry aggregation and network autonomic scaling

    公开(公告)号:US11018945B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US15919130

    申请日:2018-03-12

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24 H04L12/26

    摘要: A method implemented by a central controller is provided. The method includes receiving traffic monitoring information from a client, and sending a traffic monitor request to a network controller, the traffic monitor request requesting the network controller to monitor one or more traffic parameters based on the traffic monitoring information. The method further includes receiving a traffic report from the network controller, and responsive to determining that a monitored traffic parameter in the traffic report does not satisfy a condition specified by the traffic monitoring information, initiating a scaling operation based on data contained in the traffic report.

    Transporting A Multi-Transport Network Context-Identifier (MTNC-ID) Across Multiple Domains

    公开(公告)号:US20210037410A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-04

    申请号:US16840113

    申请日:2020-04-03

    IPC分类号: H04W28/02 H04L12/741

    摘要: A method performed by a Next Generation Node B (gNB) in a communications system implementing User Datagram Protocol (UDP) comprises indicating that a data packet comprises a multi-transport network context-identifier (MTNC-ID) corresponding to a forwarding path and being associated with a set of resource provisioning requirements for one or more transport networks on the forwarding path to provision transport resources for traffic forwarding on the forwarding path, inserting the MTNC-ID into a Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE) header of the data packet, and transmitting the data packet to a network element (NE) in the communications system based on the forwarding path corresponding to the MTNC-ID.

    Controller based service policy mapping to establish different tunnels for different applications

    公开(公告)号:US10826722B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-03

    申请号:US15845651

    申请日:2017-12-18

    发明人: Young Lee Italo Busi

    摘要: A method implemented by a customer network controller (CNC) in a network comprises storing, by a memory of the CNC, a mapping between a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier (ID) of a VLAN, an application ID of an application executed in the VLAN, and a service policy associated with the application, the service policy defining a network requirement for the application, the VLAN being associated with a customer edge (CE), transmitting, by a transmitter of the CNC, a tunnel creation request comprising the VLAN ID, the application ID, and the service policy, and storing, by the memory, a tunnel ID of a tunnel established in response to the tunnel creation request, the tunnel defining a path between an ingress provider edge (PE) node and an egress PE node that satisfies the service policy.

    Traffic engineering service mapping

    公开(公告)号:US10708083B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US16657405

    申请日:2019-10-18

    摘要: A customer network controller (CNC) including a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to use a virtual private network (VPN)-specific service model for a VPN service and map the VPN-specific service model to one or more traffic engineering (TE)-specific parameters. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to store a mapping between a VPN identification (ID) of the VPN service corresponding to the VPN-specific service model and a tunnel ID of either an existing TE tunnel or newly-established TE tunnel for the VPN service. The existing TE tunnel or the newly established TE tunnel satisfies the one or more TE-specific parameters.

    Traffic Engineering Service Mapping
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200052928A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-13

    申请号:US16657405

    申请日:2019-10-18

    IPC分类号: H04L12/46 H04L29/06 H04L12/24

    摘要: A customer network controller (CNC) including a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to use a virtual private network (VPN)-specific service model for a VPN service and map the VPN-specific service model to one or more traffic engineering (TE)-specific parameters. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to store a mapping between a VPN identification (ID) of the VPN service corresponding to the VPN-specific service model and a tunnel ID of either an existing TE tunnel or newly-established TE tunnel for the VPN service. The existing TE tunnel or the newly established TE tunnel satisfies the one or more TE-specific parameters.

    Method of Establishing Relationships Between Sets of Label Switched Paths and Virtual Networks

    公开(公告)号:US20190123971A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US16223879

    申请日:2018-12-18

    发明人: Young Lee Dhruv Dhody

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24 H04L12/46

    摘要: A method for establishing end-to-end tunnels extending across multiple domains using a network element. The method includes receiving a request from a customer controller to implement a virtual network (VN) created by the customer controller, wherein the VN identifies the end-to-end tunnels extending across the multiple domains, mapping the VN to available resources based on network constraints in response to the request, and transmitting, after the VN has been mapped, a message to a network controller managing one of the domains that includes a network path used to form a portion of one of the end-to-end tunnels, wherein the message includes an association object having a Type-Length-Value (TLV) field containing a virtual network identifier binding the network path to the VN.

    PCEP EXTENSION TO SUPPORT FLEXI-GRID OPTICAL NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20180278458A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15924984

    申请日:2018-03-19

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08 H04L12/24 H04L29/12

    摘要: A computer-implemented method of requesting a path on a flexi-grid network comprises: sending, by a path computation client (PCC), a request for a path to a path computation element (PCE), the request including the request including: a label that identifies spectrum to be restricted from use in the path; and a channel spacing field; and receiving, by the PCC and from the PCE, a response to the request, the response including an identifier of an assigned path on the flexi-grid network.

    Inter-Telecommunications Edge Cloud Protocols

    公开(公告)号:US20180041578A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-08

    申请号:US15231364

    申请日:2016-08-08

    摘要: A first telecommunications edge cloud (TEC) element deployed between a client and a packet network includes a TEC hardware layer including storage resources, networking resources, and computing resources, wherein the computing resources include a plurality of processors. The networking resources are configured to transmit a first general update message to a plurality of second TEC elements within a federation, transmit a first application-specific update message to the second TEC elements within the federation, and receive a plurality of second update messages from the second TEC elements that are associated with the federation. The federation includes the second TEC elements and the first TEC element and shares resources to provide data and services to a requesting client. The storage resources are coupled to the computing resources and the networking resources and configured to store a second generic resource container and second application-specific resource container for each of the second TEC elements.

    Computing service chain-aware paths

    公开(公告)号:US09871719B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-16

    申请号:US15459918

    申请日:2017-03-15

    摘要: A method implemented by a path computation element (PCE), comprising receiving a path computation request to compute a network path for a source-destination pair in a service chain (SC) network, wherein the path computation request comprises at least one network routing constraint and a service function (SF) input associated with a plurality of SFs, computing a plurality of network paths through the network for the source-destination pair according to the network routing constraint, selecting at least a first of the network paths according to the SF input, and sending a path computation response indicating at least the first network path in response to the received path computation request.