Nec Corporation

Qiang Xu

Guofei Jiang

Cristian Lumezanu

Hui Joyce Zhang

Nipun Arora

Abhishek Sharma

Cheng Jin

Junghwan Rhee

Curtis Yu

Hyun-Wook Baek

Zhuotao Liu

Hui Zhang

Methods and systems for network management include performing path regression to determine an end-to-end path across physical links for each data flow in a network. A per-flow utilization of each physical link in the network is estimated based on the determined end-to-end paths. A management action is performed in the network based on the estimated per-flow utilization.

VM-to-VM traffic estimation in multi-tenant data centers

Systems and methods for decoupled searching and optimization for one or more data centers, including determining a network topology for one or more networks of interconnected computer systems embedded in the one or more data center, searching for routing candidates based on a network topology determined, and updating and applying one or more objective functions to the routing candidates to determine an optimal routing candidate to satisfy embedding goals based on tenant requests, and to embed the optimal routing candidate in the one or more data centers.

Optimization framework for multi-tenant data centers

A computer implemented method for network monitoring includes providing network packet event characterization and analysis for network monitoring that includes supporting summarization and characterization of network packet traces collected across multiple processing elements of different types in a virtual network, including a trace slicing to organize individual packet events into path-based trace slices, a trace characterization to extract at least 2 types of feature matrix describing those trace slices, and a trace analysis to cluster, rank and query packet traces based on metrics of the feature matrix.

Layer 2 path tracing through context encoding in software defined networking

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

Systems and methods for controlling legacy switch routing in one or more hybrid networks of interconnected computers and switches, including generating a network underlay for the one or more hybrid networks by generating a minimum spanning tree (MST) and a forwarding graph (FWG) over a physical network topology of the one or more hybrid networks, determining an optimal path between hosts on the FWG by optimizing an initial path with a minimum cost mapping, and adjusting the initial path to enforce the optimal path by generating and installing special packets in one or more programmable switches to trigger installation of forwarding rules for one or more legacy switches.

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