Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

Nec Corporation

Curtis Yu

Guofei Jiang

Cristian Lumezanu

Yueping Zhang

Vishal Kumar Singh

Abhishek Sharma

Qiang Xu

Anupam Das

In a software defined network having switches including first and last switches and intermediate switches, wherein a default routing path exists between the first and last switches, a system and method are provided for computing path latency. The method includes inserting a respective monitoring rule(s) in each switch, mandating for each switch, forwarding a received rule matching packet to a next switch, and further mandating for the first switch and the last switch, sending a PacketIn message to a controller. The method includes inserting, in each switch, a respective monitoring probe(s) matching the respective monitoring rule(s) in a same switch to initiate mandates specified by the respective monitoring rule(s) in the same switch responsive to an arrival of the packet thereat. The method includes time-stamping the PacketIn messages to generate PacketIn timestamps, aggregating the PacketIn timestamps, and estimating the path latency from an aggregation of PacketIn timestamps.

Patent latency monitoring in software-defined networks

A method implemented in a network apparatus used in a network is disclosed. The method includes sensing network topology and network utilization, receiving a request from an application, deciding path setup requirement using network state information obtained from the network topology and the network utilization, and translating the path setup requirement into a rule to be installed. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.

Network management

A method implemented in a network apparatus used in a network is disclosed. The method comprises collecting information about network topology from a network controller, collecting information about data movement, deciding routing in the network according to the information about network topology and the information about data movement, and providing information about the routing to the network controller, wherein the network controller enforces the routing in the network. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.

Data processing

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