Transporting MTNC-ID over SRV6-enabled dataplane for 5G transport
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung Lee, James Neil Guichard, Kaippallimalil Mathew John
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Abstract
A method for transporting a Multi-Transport Network Context Identifier (MTNC-ID) over a Segment Routing Version 6 (SRV6) enabled data plane for fifth generation (5G) transport. The method includes setting an indicator in a flags field of a SRV6 header of a data packet that an MTNC-ID type-length-value (TLV) is included in a TLV field of the SRV6 header. The MTNC-ID TLV for the MTNC-ID is inserted in the TLV field of the SRV6 header of the data packet. The data packet with the SRV6 header containing the MTNC-ID is transmitted over the SRV6 enabled data plane to a next node along a forwarding path corresponding to the MTNC-ID.
Claims16
A method for transporting multi-transport network context identifier (MTNC-ID) information, the method comprising:
- encoding the MTNC-ID information into a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header of a data packet;
- and
- transmitting the data packet to a next node along a forwarding path, wherein the MTNC-ID information corresponds to an MTNC-ID that is associated with a set of resource provisioning requirements for one or more transport networks on the forwarding path to provision transport resources for forwarding traffic on the forwarding path.
A method comprising:
- receiving a data packet comprising multi-transport network context identifier (MTNC-ID) information in a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header of the data packet;
- determining a MTNC-ID corresponding to the MTNC-ID information;
- and
- provisioning a set of resource requirements associated with the MTNC-ID for transmitting the data packet on a forwarding path.
A system comprising:
- a memory comprising instructions;
- and
- a processor in communication with the memory, the processor executing the instructions to:
- encode multi-transport network context identifier (MTNC-ID) information into a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header of a data packet;
- and
- transmit the data packet to a next node along a forwarding path, wherein the MTNC-ID information corresponds to an MTNC-ID that is associated with a set of resource provisioning requirements for one or more transport networks on the forwarding path to provision transport resources for forwarding traffic on the forwarding path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.