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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2015
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Jiangtao Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Hlady, San Jose, CA (US);
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Methods for memory allocation in a software-defined networking (SDN) system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first message in a network device from a SDN controller, where the first message includes a request to generate an entity in the network device to route traffic, and where the entity is one of a flow table entry, a group table entry, and a flow table. The method further includes identifying an indication in the first message that indicates at least one memory usage characteristic of the entity, where the at least one memory usage characteristic includes at least one of a target access speed and a target storage scalability of the entity; and generating, at least partially based on the indication, the entity using one memory type of a plurality of memory types of the network device.