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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2015
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Eswara Chinthalapati, San Jose, CA (US);
Sayed Mohd Saquib, Karnataka, IN;
Dilip Kumar, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for performing flow-specific failure detection in SDN networks are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system (e.g., an SDN controller) can determine a flow to be monitored in a network. The computer system can then transmit first and second messages to first and second network devices in the network respectively, where the first network device is an upstream device in the flow, where the second network device is a downstream device in the flow, and where the first and second messages instruct the first and second network devices to collect local data rate information for the flow.