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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Ludovic Beliveau, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Dyke, Ville Saint-Laurent, CA;
Ramesh Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);
Ritun Patney, San Jose, CA (US);
Ludovic Beliveau, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Dyke, Ville Saint-Laurent, CA;
Ramesh Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);
Ritun Patney, San Jose, CA (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A network device acts as a controller within a software-defined network. The network device receives a processing definition, which includes a representation of configurable definitions of protocols, configurable flow table definitions, and configurable logic for selecting between flow tables defined by the configurable flow table definitions. The network device translates the processing definition to create a parser configuration package, which is distributed to a plurality of forwarding elements. This distribution causes each forwarding element to create a flow table based on each of the configurable flow table definitions. The flow tables include one or more configurable key columns and a set of one or more action columns to store forwarding decisions. The network device transmits data to populate the configurable key columns and action columns of the flow tables created within each of the plurality of forwarding elements.