MULTI-CONTROLLER CONTROL TRAFFIC BALANCING IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS

Patent №

US 10,091,093

Granted

2018-10-02

Filed 2016

Owner

FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15199387

A method includes determining a number and placement of multiple controllers in a software defined network (SDN) such that each controller controls a different set of software controlled switches in the SDN and finding optimal forwarding paths for control traffic between the switches and controllers to minimize delay of control traffic over the software defined network.

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AI classification

Planning0.69
AI hardware0.12
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Machine learning0.01
Speech0.01
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 397430349

Assignors

LUO, MIN, LIN, SHIH-CHUN, AKYILDIZ, IAN F.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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