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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Katherine Barabash, Haifa, IL;
Rami Cohen, Haifa, IL;
Sergey Guenender, Haifa, IL;
Liane Lewin-Eytan, Binyamina, IL;
Eran Raichstein, Yokneam Ilit, IL;
Liran Schour, Harduf, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Machines, systems and methods for efficient data communication are provided. The method comprises receiving a data packet to be transmitted to a destination node in a overlay-based communications network, wherein the destination information is included in a virtual header that includes a virtual address of the destination node; determining a physical address of the destination node based on the virtual address of the destination node; replacing the virtual header for the received data packet with a physical header that includes the physical address; and transmitting the data packet over the communications network to a destination host based on the physical address included in the physical header.