Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Huaimo Chen

Renwei Li

Qianglin Quintin Zhao

Hua Autumn Liu

Ming Li

Dean Cheng

Xuesong Dong

Zhenbin Li

Linda Dunbar

Raveendra Torvi

Zhibo Hu

Randall R Stewart

Donald Eggleston Eastlake, Iii

Katherine Zhao

Bisong Tao

Hongtao Yin

Yang Yu

Weiqian Dai

Veerendranatha Reddy Vallem

Anil Kumar S N

Charles E Perkins

Steve Yao

A method implemented by a first controller in a network comprising a cluster of controllers including the first controller and a second controller, the method comprises transmitting, to a network element (NE), a first BGP message comprising a first controllers network layer reachability information (NLRI), the first controllers NLRI carrying a position of the first controller relative to other controllers in the cluster of controllers, receiving, from the NE, a second BGP message comprising a second controllers NLRI, the second controllers NLRI carrying a position of the second controller relative to the other controllers in the cluster of controllers, and determining the primary controller from the cluster of controllers based on the position of the first controller and the position of the second controller, with the primary controller being responsible for controlling the network.

System and method for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) controlled network reliability

A method used by an egress router is disclosed. The egress router obtains a capacity index of an application server attached to the egress router. The egress router further obtains a load index describing a load measurement between the egress router and the application server during a certain time period. The egress router encodes the capacity index and the load index into a packet. The egress router transmits the packet to one or more routers in an Internet protocol (IP) network.

Network protocol extension for 5G edge computing services

Methods of computing a flooding topology (FT) for a network are presented. The methods include a process for computing a FT that includes all nodes in the network and a process for ensuring that all nodes in the FT have at least two links in the FT. Some of the methods minimize a number of links of the nodes in the FT. Some of the methods also constrain some of the nodes in the FT to a maximum number of links. Some of the methods compute a first FT for nodes whose maximum number of links in the FT equal their number of links in the network, then compute a second FT for remaining nodes in the network, then combines the two FTs to compute a complete FT for the network.

System and methods for computing flooding topology

Disclosed is a mechanism implemented by an ingress node in a network. The mechanism comprises receiving a packet in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) format. A first segment list is pushed onto the packet. The first segment list describes a segment routing point to multipoint (SR P2MP) path as a list of multicast segment identifiers (SIDs) each comprising a multicast adjacency label. The packet is transmitted from a downstream interface along the SR P2MP path.

Segment routing MPLS point to multipoint path

A Proxy Forwarding node configured to advertise Segment Routing (SR) proxy forwarding capability of the Proxy Forwarding node for neighboring nodes of the Proxy Forwarding node using extensions to interior gateway protocol (IGP) for Proxy Forwarding for enabling an ingress node to the SR Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) path to continue to forward the traffic without modifying a segment list of the SR-TE path that includes a node segment identifier (SID) of a failed neighboring node of the Proxy Forwarding node. When the Proxy Forwarding node receives traffic targeting the failed neighboring node, the Proxy Forwarding node performs SR proxy forwarding for the failed neighboring node by forwarding the traffic towards a destination of the traffic in a direction that avoids the failed neighboring node for a period of time after the IGP has converged.

Interior gateway protocol (IGP) for segment routing (SR) proxy segment identifiers (SIDs)

A method performed by a controller configured to implement Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in a communications system, comprising establishing a controller BGP (cBGP) peer session with a network element (NE), receiving a message for communication through the cBGP session from the NE, determining whether the message is permitted to be communicated through the cBGP session based on whether the message carries routing information; transmitting the message to the NE through the cBGP session when the message is permitted to be communicated through the cBGP session, and receiving a response message of the first type from the NE through the cBGP session.

System and method for implementing controller border gateway protocol (cBGP)

A method implemented by a first node in a segment routing (SR) network domain includes receiving, from a second node of another network domain, a packet that is to pass through the SR network domain in accordance with segment identifiers (SIDs). The method also includes obtaining compressed SIDs corresponding to some of the SIDs. The method includes generating, by the first node, a segment routing header (SRH) having a list of segments and a segment left (SL) field. The method finally includes adding the SRH to the packet, and forwarding the packet with the SRH to a third node in the SR network domain.

Mixing segments with different sizes for segment routing

Disclosed is a mechanism for implementing link state flooding reduction (LSFR) in an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) network. The mechanism includes receiving data indicating connectivity of a plurality of nodes in the network. A flooding topology is built based on the connectivity. This includes selecting one of the nodes as a root node, and building a tree of links connecting the root node to the nodes in the network. The flooding topology is stored in a memory. The flooding topology may not be to the remaining nodes in the network. Link state messages may then be flooded over the flooding topology.

Interior gateway protocol flood minimization

A network node including a processor coupled to a memory. The processor is configured to receive instructions from the memory which, when executed by the processor, cause the network node to receive a path computation request, calculate a first path from a first ingress node to an egress node, calculate a second path from a second ingress node to a destination node, transmit a first message comprising the first path to the first ingress node, and transmit a second message comprising the second path to the second ingress node.

Source routing tunnel ingress protection

A method implemented by a network node in a Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic/Tree Engineering (BIER-TE) domain is used to avoid duplicate packets. The method includes generating an improved bit index forwarding table (BIFT) containing a forwarding entry for a local area network (LAN)-connected adjacency from the network node to a pseudo node; and a secondary BIFT including a forwarding entry for a forward connected adjacency from the pseudo node to each of the pseudo node's next hop nodes except the network node; sending a packet containing a point to multipoint (P2MP) path with a bit position for the LAN-connected adjacency to the pseudo node according to the forwarding entry for the LAN-connected adjacency in the improved BIFT; and sending the packet to each of the pseudo node's next hop nodes on the P2MP path based on the secondary BIFT.

Bit index explicit replication traffic engineering for broadcast link

The disclosure relates to path computation and setup of one or more nodes in a network. Connectivity information is received at a local node of the nodes in the network, and a processor of the local node computes a flooding topology based on the received connectivity information, where the flooding topology is represented by links between nodes in the network. The links are encoded between the local node and remote nodes and between remote nodes on the flooding topology, and a link state message is flooded to the remote nodes from the local node in the network, where the link state message includes each of the encoded links in the flooding topology.

System and method to reduce flooding topology size

Disclosed herein are various embodiments for constructing an abstract domain topology. In one embodiment, a Path Computation Element (PCE) is configured as a parent PCE to at least one child PCE. Each of the child PCEs is responsible for providing path computational services for a domain. Communication is established between the parent PCE and the at least one child PCE. The parent PCE receives from each of its child PCEs domain connection information corresponding to the domain of each child PCE. The parent PCE builds and maintains an abstract domain topology based on the domain connection information that it receives from its child PCEs. In one embodiment, the domain connection information is communicated from the child PCE to the parent PCE by adding a new notification-type (NT) and notification-value (NV) to a notification object in a Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) notification message.

Connections and accesses for hierarchical path computation element (PCE)

A network node including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor configured to receive instructions from the memory which, when executed by the processor, cause the network node to receive a path computation request; calculate a first path from a first ingress node to an egress node; calculate a second path from a second ingress node to the egress node; transmit a first message using border gateway protocol (BGP), the first message comprising the first path to the first ingress node; and transmit a second message using BGP, the second message comprising the second path and an ingress protection indicator to the second ingress node.

Extending BGP protection for SR path ingress protection

A method performed by a network controller for providing network reliability. The method includes employing an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) proxy configured to communicate controller information about the network controller to the one or more network elements using IGP (Link-State Advertisement (LSA) or Link State Protocol Data Unit (LSP)) with a Controllers TLV. The method uses the controller information for proper election of a primary controller in the event of a network failure.

System and method for network reliability

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system includes an active network element having circuitry for executing a primary application and a transmission control protocol (TCP) module, multiple standby network elements having circuitry for executing a secondary copy of the primary application and a secondary TCP module, and a network connection coupled to one or more of the active and standby network elements, wherein the active network element and standby network elements are coupled to transfer data and acknowledgments via their respective TCP modules, and wherein the standby network elements are reconfigurable to communicate via the network connection to a peer regardless of the failure of one or two of the network elements.

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Bolton, MA, United States of America

Huaimo Chen