Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Ruobin Zheng

Hongyu Li

Min Zha

Yizhou Li

Jianfei He

Wenle Yang

Xue Chen

Zhongjian Zhang

Chenghu Shen

Quanbo Zhao

Yuanling Bai

Dujuan Gu

Xintian Hu

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for indicating a multicast forwarding entry and a device. The method includes: receiving a packet from a first node, wherein the packet comprises a multicast control message and an access loop identifier; obtaining, according to a multicast Internet Protocol (IP) address in the multicast control message, a multicast Media Access Control (MAC) address; obtaining an identifier of a first port according to the access loop identifier, wherein the first port is an egress port, on the multicast path, of the first port; sending a first forwarding entry to the first node, wherein a destination address of the first forwarding entry is the multicast MAC address and egress port information of the first forwarding entry is the identifier of the first port.

Method for indicating multicast forwarding entry and device

This application provides a segment routing method and apparatus. The method includes: An ingress routing device receives a packet sent by a terminal device; and obtains a functional program corresponding to the packet of the terminal device. The functional program is used to indicate one or more sequential computing processing steps/instructions, service processing steps/instructions, or network processing steps/instructions, the functional program includes one or more sequentially placed function identifiers FID, and each FID is used to represent one computing processing step/instruction, service processing step/instruction, or network processing step/instruction.

Segment routing method and apparatus

This disclosure provides for a compute-aware routing method and apparatus. The method include: a compute-aware router that receives compute-aware routing information of at least one computing container. The compute-aware routing information includes a computing code or a computing metric. The compute-aware router determines a routing information base (RIB) based on the compute-aware routing information. The RIB includes either a function identifier (FID) of a function that can be provided by the computing container or an Internet Protocol (IP) address prefix of the computing container in which the function is located and either the computing code or the computing metric. The function includes any one of a software-defined computing program, function program, service software, or microservice that is deployed in the computing container.

Compute-aware routing method and apparatus

In a message transmission method, an access controller receives a first message from an access node, and the first message includes a first identifier. The access controller obtains a line identifier according to the first identifier. The access controller obtains a second message according to the line identifier, and the second message includes the line identifier. The access controller sends the second message to a relay server.

Message transmission method, access node, access controller, and access system

A packet processing method, including a network node of an access network receiving a first packet sent by a user terminal, where the first packet is used to request an Internet Protocol (IP) address from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server and the network node obtains a second packet, where the second packet includes the first packet, information about a port, and a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the user terminal, the port is a port through which the network node receives the first packet, and the second packet is a packet except a DHCP packet. Additionally, the network node sends the second packet to a controller.

Packet processing method and apparatus

A bandwidth scheduling method. The method includes a bandwidth allocation apparatus receives a bandwidth request message sent by a message conversion apparatus, where the bandwidth request message includes a bandwidth requirement, and the bandwidth requirement is a bandwidth required by a user-side apparatus for completing transmission of a service. The bandwidth allocation apparatus calculates first bandwidth grant information and second bandwidth grant information based on the bandwidth requirement, where the first bandwidth grant information is information about a bandwidth that is allocated to the user-side device, and the second bandwidth grant information is information about a bandwidth that is allocated to a second access device. The bandwidth allocation apparatus sends the first bandwidth grant information to the user-side device, and the bandwidth allocation apparatus sends the second bandwidth grant information to the second access device by using a first access device.

Bandwidth scheduling method and apparatus

This application provides a message processing method, an access controller, and a network node. The method includes: an access controller receives a first message used to obtain Internet Protocol (IP) address information for a user-side device and a first access loop identifier of a first network node, where the first message and the first access loop identifier are sent by the first network node, the first access loop identifier is not carried in the first message; the access controller obtains an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) message according to the first access loop identifier, wherein the AAA message comprises the first access loop identifier; and the access controller sends the AAA message to an AAA server.

Message processing method, access controller, and network node

This application provides a packet processing method, which helps resolve a problem that a network node between a user terminal and a DHCP server is relatively complex. In the method, a network node of an access network receives a first packet sent by a user terminal, where the first packet is used to request an Internet Protocol IP address from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP server and the network node obtains a second packet, where the second packet includes the first packet, information about a port, and a Media Access Control MAC address of the user terminal, the port is a port through which the network node receives the first packet, and the second packet is a packet except a DHCP packet. Additionally the network node sends the second packet to a controller.

The present invention provides a service processing method, device and system. The method includes: receiving a service packet, and searching, according to a service identity in the service packet, a service routing table corresponding to the service packet, where the service identity represents a service to be processedby the service packet; and the service routing table includesthe service identity,a service label used to represent a service feature in the service, and a routing path for processing the service feature; and setting the service label in the service packet according to the service routing table, and sending, according to the routing path, the service packet to a service processing device configured to process the service feature corresponding to the service label, so that the service processing device processes the service feature corresponding to the service label. The present invention reduces an impact on an original service and improves scalability.

Service processing method, device and system

A data transmission method includes: receiving, by the PNF SDN controller, a first packet and an access loop identifier that are sent by a first network device; generating, by the PNF SDN controller, a second packet based on the access loop identifier and the first packet; and sending, by the PNF SDN controller, the second packet to the virtualized network function software-defined networking VNF SDN controller, so that the VNF SDN controller sends the second packet to a second network device, where the second packet is used to request the second network device to assign an IP address or IP address prefix to user equipment.

Data transmission method, PNF SDN controller, VNF SDN controller, and data transmission system

The present invention relates to the field of network communications. An Optical Line Terminal (OLT) allocates a Pseudo Wire (PW) label of an access segment PW for a port, and establishes a corresponding relationship between the port information and the PW label; and carries the corresponding relationship between the port information and the PW label in a label management message, and sends the label management message to an Optical Network Unit (ONU) so that the ONU updates a forwarding table, in which the label management message adopts an access network management protocol. As a consequence, a problem of supporting Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) on a data plane of an access segment of an access network is solved under the conditions that device complexity of the ONU is not increased and a configuration of the ONU is slightly changed.

Method, apparatus, and system for managing label of access network

This application discloses an authentication method for accessing a network, an authentication device, and a user device. The method includes: an authentication device receives an authentication response message sent by user device, where the authentication response message includes first data, and the first data is data obtained by the user device based on biometric feature data of a target user. The authentication device obtains second data from a server, where the second data is data obtained by the server based on biometric feature data of a user, and generates indication information when the first data is the same as the second data, where the indication information is used to indicate that the user device is authenticated. The authentication device sends the indication information to the user device.

Authentication method for accessing network, authentication device, and user device

This application provides a user equipment management method and a device, to help reduce complexity of operation and maintenance. The method includes: obtaining, by a gateway device, identifiers IDs of N user equipments and information about a first service, where the N user equipments are terminals configured to implement the first service, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; obtaining, by the gateway device, an ID of a logical device based on the information about the first service, where the logical device is a set of logical elements that are in the gateway device and that are configured to implement the first service; and binding, by the gateway device, the ID of the logical device and the IDs of the N user equipments.

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