Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adding multi-tenant awareness to a network packet processing device on a software defined network (SDN)
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Application No.: US16417684Application Date: 2019-05-21
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Publication No.: US10680946B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Ronald Becker Williams , Cheng-Ta Lee , Lun-Pin Yuan
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Jeffrey S. LaBaw; David H. Judson
- Main IPC: H04L12/715
- IPC: H04L12/715 ; H04L12/751 ; H04L12/717 ; H04L12/713 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
“Multi-tenant awareness” is added to a set of one or more packet processing devices in a Software Defined Network (SDN) having a controller. For each of one or more tenants, information in a table associates network protocol address attributes with an Internet Protocol (IP) address unique to the tenant. The table is associated with a multiple-layer translation layer being managed by the SDN controller. As a data packet traverses the translation layer, network protocol address attributes are translated according to values in the table to enable logical routing of the packet (to a given PPD. This translation occurs dynamically (or “on-the-fly”) as packets are “on route” to their destination. By implementing a multi-layer network address translation (NAT), one layer may be used to translate network protocol address source attributes, while a second layer may be used to translate network protocol address destination attributes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190273681A1 Adding multi-tenant awareness to a network packet processing device on a Software Defined Network (SDN) Public/Granted day:2019-09-05
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