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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Applicant:
Kiran Yedavalli, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kiran Yedavalli, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method and apparatus for reducing forwarding table sizes in flow switches in a flow-based, split-architecture network is described. In an embodiment, a set of flow switches along a flow path is identified to form a switch pool. The forwarding table of only one of the flow switches in the switch pool is configured to have a flow entry that is associated with a particular flow. The flow entry includes a set of match fields for identifying packets belonging to that particular flow, and a set of actions to be performed on the packets belonging to that particular flow.