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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2020
Applicant:
Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Shaofu Peng, Shenzhen, CN;
Feicai Jin, Shenzhen, CN;
Assignee:
ZTE CORPORATION, Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.01); H04L 41/5054 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.05); H04L 41/5054 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network slice creation method and apparatus, and a packet forwarding method and apparatus are provided. The network slice creation method includes: respectively configuring Traffic Engineering (TE) affinity attributes for layer-2 member links in a layer-3 bundled link, and flooding the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links by using Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP); and then creating, according to the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links and by using a Flex Algorithm (FA), network slices containing the layer-2 member links.