Layer-2 grouping of electronic devices across heterogeneous networks

Abstract

A computer that segments traffic associated with different entities across heterogeneous networks is described. During operation, the computer may provide, addressed to a second computer, information that specifies a mapping of an identifier of an electronic device in a wireless network and a second identifier of a virtual container for traffic associated with the electronic device in the wireless network to a third identifier of the electronic device in a cellular-telephone network, where the electronic device and the virtual container are associated with an entity. Then, the computer may communicate the traffic between the wireless network and the cellular-telephone network within the virtual container based at least in part on the mapping, where the virtual container isolates the traffic from other traffic in the wireless network. Note that the identifier may include a MAC address and the third identifier may include an IMSI.

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