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Routing control method, device, and system

US10764173B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 5, 2018
Grant dateSep 1, 2020
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Expiry dateFeb 12, 2038

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L45/54
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A controller, including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor for managing a first autonomous system (AS), the program including instructions to receive a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing message, determine a destination node, the destination node belonging to the first AS, determine, according to a node that sends the first BGP routing message, whether to perform incoming-traffic adjustment and control, allocate a source node from a second AS directly connected to the first AS, obtain a preferred path between the source and destination nodes according to a network topology, determine a first BR and a second BR on the preferred path, and send a routing control message to a specified BR belonging to the first AS instructing the specified BR to use the first BR as a next hop for packet forwarding of the second BR.

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