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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Zte Corporation, Guangdong, CN;
Assignee:
ZTE CORPORATION, Guangdong, CN;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); H04L 45/304 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An encapsulation method, an encapsulation device and an encapsulation node are disclosed. The encapsulation method includes: embedding, at an encapsulation node in an in-situ operation administration and maintenance, IOAM, domain, IOAM information in a segment routing multi-protocol label switching, SR MPLS, header. The IOAM information includes: an IOAM header and an IOAM payload. The IOAM header includes a MPLS label value assigned by internet assigned numbers authority, IANA; and the IOAM header further includes at least one of: a value identifying whether the IOAM header is at a bottom of a stack, a packet priority field, and an encoded time-to-live value.