Cisco Technology, Inc.

Packetfabric, LLC

Kenneth Gray

David Delano Ward

Hugo Latapie

Enzo Fenoglio

Sawsen Rezig

Carlos M Pignataro

James Neil Guichard

Patrice Brissette

Javed Asghar

Robert Stephen Rodgers

Yixing Ruan

Jiri Chaloupka

Bart Van De Velde

Techniques for devices in autonomous systems to utilize a protocol, such as a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), to signal intent to instantiate services for establishing connections between the devices. For instance, first device(s) in a first autonomous system (AS) may determine to establish a connection with a second AS. The first device(s) may encode a service key into an Internet Protocol (IP) address where the service key indicates a service that is to be provisioned on second device(s) in the second AS. The first device(s) system may then advertise the IP address host-route using BGP, and the second device(s) may receive the BGP advertisement. The second device(s) may decode the service key from the IP address, and provision the service to establish the connection between the autonomous systems. Thus, the devices in may leverage existing protocols to signal intent to instantiate services and establish connections between autonomous systems.

Signaling intent to establish connections between autonomous systems

In one embodiment, a network quality assessment service that monitors a network obtains multimodal data indicative of a plurality of measurements from the network and subjective perceptions of the network by users of the network. The network quality assessment service uses the obtained multimodal data as input to one or more neural network-based models. The network quality assessment service maps, using a conceptual space, outputs of the one or more neural network-based models to symbols. The network quality assessment service applies a symbolic reasoning engine to the symbols, to generate a conclusion regarding the monitored network. The network quality assessment service provides an indication of the conclusion to a user interface.

Deep fusion reasoning engine (DFRE) for dynamic and explainable wireless network QoE metrics

Aspects of the embodiments are directed to augmenting a control packet with an interface identifier, the interface identifier identifying an interface at a physical network forwarding element; and transmitting the control packet with the interface identifier to the physical network forwarding element. The interface identifier can be included in metadata of a network service header (NSH). The NSH is encapsulated with the control packet, which is transmitted with the control packet. The NSH can be extracted and the interface identifier used to identify a user interface (or a presenting interface) based on a metadata lookup.

Using a network service header to manage a network-as-a-system

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Frederick, MD, United States of America

Kenneth Gray