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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2014
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Peter J. Winzer, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
John E. Simsarian, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Marina K. Thottan, Westfield, NJ (US);
Kyle Guan, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Cross-layer information associated with a software defined networking-based (SDN-based) communication network is collected. One or more updates are sent to one or more network elements in the SDN-based communication network to control one or more local decisions made at the one or more network elements. The one or more updates are based on at least a portion of the collected cross-layer information. Preferably, the collecting and sending steps are performed by a controller implementing an SDN management plane associated with the SDN-based communication network.