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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
May. 30, 2022
Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
Benchong Xu, Shenzhen, CN;
Zheng Zhang, Shenzhen, CN;
ZTE CORPORATION, Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of communications, and in particular, to a forwarding method, a forwarding system, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The forwarding method includes: acquiring a packet to be forwarded, and detecting whether the packet to be forwarded contains a preset indicator, wherein the preset indicator is used for indicating that the packet to be forwarded has a designated forwarding path; when the packet to be forwarded contains the preset indicator, acquiring information of a protocol header following a Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) header of the packet to be forwarded, wherein the information of the protocol header is at least used for indicating the designated forwarding path; determining a next hop according to the information of the protocol header; and forwarding the packet to be forwarded according to the next hop.