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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Zu Qiang, Kirkland, CA;
Inventor:
Zu Qiang, Kirkland, CA;
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/15 (2013.01); H04L 12/184 (2013.01); H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 12/1886 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/2833 (2013.01); H04L 41/08 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01);
Abstract
The use of Network Virtualization using Overlays over Layer 3 (NVO3) is a growing trend to address networking issues in data centers that make use of virtualization and cloud computing techniques. Additional considerations may be required to support application-specific multicast traffic in such overlay networks. Systems and methods are provided for an overlay network control function node to allocate one or more overlay network edge nodes to act as a multicast gateway for each network segment. The gateway can distribute multicast traffic to other participating edge nodes in its same network segment, thus reducing network traffic.