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US 12,119,986 B2Granted
Network slice creation method and apparatus, and packet forwarding method and apparatus
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorsShaofu Peng, Feicai Jin
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Abstract
A network slice creation method and apparatus, and a packet forwarding method and apparatus are provided. The network slice creation method includes: respectively configuring Traffic Engineering (TE) affinity attributes for layer-2 member links in a layer-3 bundled link, and flooding the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links by using Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP); and then creating, according to the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links and by using a Flex Algorithm (FA), network slices containing the layer-2 member links.
Claims20
A network slice creation method, comprising:
- respectively configuring Traffic Engineering (TE) affinity attributes for layer-2 member links in a layer-3 bundled link, and flooding the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links by using Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP);
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- creating, according to the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links and by using a Flex Algorithm (FA), network slices containing the layer-2 member links.
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