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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2020
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, CN;
Uma S. Chunduri, Fremont, CA (US);
Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yingzhen Qu, San Jose, CA (US);
Renwei Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Kiran Makhijani, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lin Han, San Jose, CA (US);
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A method implemented by a network element (NE) in a network, comprising receiving, by the NE, an advertisement comprising preferred path route (PPR) information representing a PPR from a source to a destination in the network, the PPR information comprising a PPR identifier (PPR-ID) and a plurality of PPR description elements (PPR-PDEs) each representing an element on the PPR, receiving, by the NE, a data packet comprising the PPR-ID, and forwarding, by the NE, the data packet having the PPR-ID to a next element on the PPR based on the plurality of PPR-PDEs.