Cisco Technology, Inc.

Mark Allen Webb

Jerome Henry

Mark Grayson

Santosh Ramrao Patil

Bart A Brinckman

Gangadharan Byju Pularikkal

Indermeet Singh Gandhi

Malcolm Muir Smith

John Martin Graybeal

Mehdi Nikkhah

Mahyar Fazlyab

Various implementations disclosed herein enable controlling access to networks. In various implementations, a method of controlling access to a network is performed by a computing device including one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. In various implementations, the method includes obtaining an indication that a mobile device having access to a first network utilizing a first radio access technology (RAT) has requested access to a second network utilizing a second RAT. In some implementations, the method includes determining whether the access to the first network satisfies an authentication criterion associated with the second network. In some implementations, the method includes granting the mobile device access to the second network in response to determining that the access to the first network satisfies the authentication criterion associated with the second network. In some implementations, accessing the second network via the authentication criterion satisfies an operating threshold associated with the mobile device.

Controlling access to networks in a heterogeneous network environment

A method for providing enhanced visibility in heterogeneous network. The method comprises receiving, at a networking device housing a cellular base station and a WLAN access point, cellular network traffic from an electronic device. The method further comprises receiving, at the networking device, WLAN traffic from the electronic device and encapsulating, at the networking device, the cellular network traffic and the WLAN traffic using a common protocol. The method further comprises transmitting the encapsulated cellular traffic and the encapsulated WLAN traffic to a controller.

Enhancing visibility in a heterogeneous network

A network computing device determines a network topology for at least one network flow path between at least one ingress network border device and at least one egress network border device. The network computing device receives a message containing data indicating flow statistics for the at least one ingress network border device. The network computing device generates flow statistics for at least one network device along the at least one network flow path from the network topology and the flow statistics for the at least one ingress network border device. The network computing device generates the flow statistics for at least one network device along the at least one network flow path without receiving flow statistics from the at least one network device along the at least one network flow path.

Network statistics estimation and prediction

In one embodiment, a method comprises a network device receiving one or more unsolicited data packets output by a plurality of source network devices, each unsolicited data packet comprising a corresponding link layer header and a corresponding network layer header; the network device parsing, from each unsolicited data packet within at least one of its corresponding link layer header or corresponding network layer header, a time type-length-value (TLV) element specifying a corresponding transmission time of the data packet from one or more corresponding source network devices, and a location TLV element specifying a corresponding location of the corresponding one or more source network devices; and the network device determining its corresponding location based on the time TLV elements and the location TLV elements parsed from the respective unsolicited data packets.

Opportunistic network-based location detection using unsolicited data packets

In one embodiment, a method comprises: acquiring a data structure containing a virtualized path identifier, the virtualized path identifier specifying a path determination method and a destination identifier that identifies a destination that is reachable according to the path determination method; determining in a route method database based on the virtualized path identifier, from among distinct types of available path determination methods identified in the route method database, a routing context for reaching the destination according to the corresponding path determination method; and causing reaching of the destination in response to executing the path determination method on the destination identifier according to the routing context obtained from the route method database.

Virtualized path identifier providing generic descriptors for reaching a destination using an identified path determination method

Various implementations disclosed herein include apparatuses, systems, and methods for extending a QoS indicator through WLAN to an electronic device in a heterogeneous network. The method comprises receiving, at a second wireless network, a packet from a first wireless network including a first quality of service (QoS) indicator for a first protocol of the first wireless network. The method further comprises determining a second quality of service (QoS) indicator for a second protocol of the second wireless network based on the first QoS indicator and network conditions of the second wireless network. The method further comprises transmitting the packet in accordance with the second QoS indicator.

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