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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2017
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Ravishankar Ravindran, San Ramon, CA (US);
Asit Chakraborti, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Aytac Azgin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosure includes a method for an Information-Centric Networking (ICN) network. According to the method, a PoA receives registration information from a producer, where the registration information comprises a name prefix of the producer. The PoA sends a plurality of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) messages to a plurality of peers of the PoA, wherein at least some of the BGP messages respectively comprise a first mapping between the name prefix of the producer and an identifier of the PoA. By sending the BGP messages comprising the mapping to the plurality of peers, the PoA may efficiently make the plurality of peers to locate the producer.