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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Shun-Neng Yang, Taichung, TW;
Chai-Hien Gan, Hsinchu, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A controlling method, a controller and a packet processing method for a software-defined network (SDN) are provided. The controlling method includes the following steps: receiving a registration message from a user equipment (UE), wherein the registration message includes a network access status of the UE; selecting a switch of the SDN as an aggregation entity (AE) for the UE according to the network access status; calculating a plurality of routing paths between the UE and the AE, wherein each routing path is coupled to one of a plurality of network interfaces of the UE; and setting flow entries in the AE and each switch in the routing paths for routing packets between the UE and a remote network.