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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01); H04W 28/0215 (2013.01);
Abstract
Inter-tenant and inter-openflow island software communicate in SDN networks by: (i) providing a software defined networking (SDN) network including a plurality of Openflow islands, a first tenant and a second tenant; and (ii) communicating, from the first tenant over the SDN network to the second tenant, a first communication. The first communication passes through at least two Openflow islands of the plurality of Openflow islands as the first communication is communicated through the SDN network from the first tenant to the second tenant.