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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2018
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Young Lee, Plano, TX (US);
James Guichard, Hollis, NH (US);
Ricard Vilalta, Castelldefels, ES;
Dhruv Dhody, Bangalore, IN;
Satish Karunanithi, Bangalore, IN;
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method implemented by a central controller is provided. The method includes receiving traffic monitoring information from a client, and sending a traffic monitor request to a network controller, the traffic monitor request requesting the network controller to monitor one or more traffic parameters based on the traffic monitoring information. The method further includes receiving a traffic report from the network controller, and responsive to determining that a monitored traffic parameter in the traffic report does not satisfy a condition specified by the traffic monitoring information, initiating a scaling operation based on data contained in the traffic report.