Hierarchical software-defined network traffic engineering controller

    公开(公告)号:US10009287B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-26

    申请号:US14141077

    申请日:2013-12-26

    Abstract: Hierarchical Software Defined Network (SDN) architectures can be used to reduce complexity of traffic engineering in large or diverse network environments. In hierarchical SDN architectures, a network is sub-divided into multiple regions, and each region is assigned to a different SDN controller. Network status information is collected and consolidated at a regional level, and fed upstream through the SDN control plane until it reaches a root SDN controller. The root-SDN controller computes cost-based parameters, which are distributed to regional SDN controllers for local provisioning. The cost-based parameters can include Lagrangian variables estimations or other parameters that constrain regional traffic engineering optimization in a manner that advances global traffic engineering objectives.

    Contention-based reservations of network resources

    公开(公告)号:US09980284B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-22

    申请号:US14657551

    申请日:2015-03-13

    CPC classification number: H04W74/02 H04W4/70 H04W72/0446 H04W74/08 H04W74/0808

    Abstract: In a wireless (e.g., machine-to-machine) network, items of user equipment compete for wireless communication resource slots (“resources”). In a contention period, an item of user equipment (a UE) sends a first signal to a base station using a first resource. The first resource is mapped to a second resource in a data transmission period. If the base station successfully receives the first signal, it sends a second signal to the UE to confirm that the UE has been awarded the second resource and can transmit data in the data transmission period.

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