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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2018
Huawei Technologies Co.,ltd., Guangdong, CN;
Xueli An, Munich, DE;
Clarissa Marquezan, Munich, DE;
Zoran Despotovic, Munich, DE;
Ishan Vaishnavi, Munich, DE;
Artur Hecker, Munich, DE;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
The application provides a switch device and a software defined network (SDN) controller. The switch device includes a storage unit configured to store control flow entries, each control flow entry comprises at least one service field associated with at least one processing action, a receiver configured to receive a data plane packet, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the SDN controller, a packet-in message, and a processor configured to determine whether at least one information field of the data plane packet or of the packet-in message matches the at least one service field of a control flow entry, and instruct the transmitter to transmit the packet-in message according to the processing action associated with the matched service field, if the at least one information field matches the at least one service field.