Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Closed loop formation preventing system and closed loop formation preventing method
- Patent Title (中): 闭环形成防止系统和闭环形成防止方法
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Application No.: US13824358Application Date: 2011-08-09
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Publication No.: US09143447B2Publication Date: 2015-09-22
- Inventor: Hideki Ogawa
- Applicant: Hideki Ogawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2010-257781 20101118
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/068116 WO 20110809
- International Announcement: WO2012/066830 WO 20120524
- Main IPC: H04J1/16
- IPC: H04J1/16 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L12/705 ; H04L12/935 ; H04L12/12 ; H04L12/715

Abstract:
In an open flow network system in which there are a plurality of networks, in each of which one OFC (OpenFlow Controller) manages a plurality of OFSs (OpenFlow Switches), and a large network is formed by a combination of them, registration of a flow entry which forms a closed loop is prevented without a component and a procedure for cooperation of the plurality of OFCs. Specifically, after route calculation, the OFC temporarily registers an flow entry of a calculation result on a flow table of the OFS as the flow entry for a test. After that, the OFS flows the test packet according to the temporarily registered flow entry. When the test packet is routed without forming the closed loop, the OFS detects it and normally registers the flow entry for a first time. Detecting that the test packet forms a closed loop, the OFS deletes a temporarily registering flow entry and returns an error to the OFC.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130176889A1 CLOSED LOOP FORMATION PREVENTING SYSTEM AND CLOSED LOOP FORMATION PREVENTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-07-11
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