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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2014
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
John Peter Curtin, Richardson, TX (US);
Seshu Dommaraju, Plano, TX (US);
Vignesh Janakiraman, Plano, TX (US);
NetScout Systems Texas, LLC, Westford, MA (US);
Abstract
A distributed network monitoring device monitors via a lightweight session tracking module of a network monitoring device, control plane data for connectivity sessions of User Equipment (UE) in a communication network. The lightweight session tracking module selectively identifies at least one bearer for a corresponding connectivity session according to one or more control plane attributes and associates each selectively identified bearer for the corresponding connectivity session with a bearer routing rule for user plane data. A packet routing module receives user plane data for connectivity sessions of UE and transmits the user plane data of the connectivity sessions according to the bearer routing rule of the lightweight session tracking module to a flow processing module for subsequent data flow analysis.