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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ashish Kapur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vishal Shukla, Santa Clara, CA (US);
GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. 2 LLC COMPANY, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for of a Multicast system by a controller in a software defined network. The method may include, receiving a request for a multicast stream from a first switch of the software defined network. The request may have originated from a requestor using an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). The method may further include, adding the request to a table, wherein the table is designated to have requests from IGMP using requestors for multicast streams. The method may further include, determining whether the request for the multicast stream matches with a multicast data transmission from a sender received by the controller. The method may further include, initiating a connection of the multicast between the requestor and the sender if the request matches the multicast data transmission.