Communication system, control apparatus, communication method and program
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorYosuke Tanabe
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Abstract
A communication system includes: a control apparatus that sets broadcast domains or multicast domains respectively for virtual networks configured in a physical network including a forwarding node(s), and sets, in the forwarding node(s), broadcast or multicast control information, associating a packet forwarding destination and a match condition including an identifier for identifying one of the broadcast domains or multicast domains; and the forwarding node(s) that performs a broadcast or multicast using the broadcast or multicast control information.
Claims15
A communication system, comprising:
- a control apparatus that sets broadcast domains or multicast domains respectively for virtual networks configured in a physical network including a forwarding node(s), and sets, in the forwarding node(s), broadcast or multicast control information, associating a packet forwarding destination and a match condition including an identifier for identifying one of the broadcast domains or multicast domains;
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- the forwarding node(s) that performs a broadcast or multicast using the broadcast or multicast control information.
A control apparatus that sets broadcast domains or multicast domains respectively for virtual networks configured in a physical network including a forwarding node(s), and sets, in the forwarding node(s), broadcast or multicast control information associating a packet forwarding destination and a match condition including an identifier for identifying one of the set broadcast domains or multicast domains.
A communication method, comprising:
- setting broadcast domains or multicast domains respectively for virtual networks configured in a physical network including a forwarding node(s);
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- setting, in the forwarding node(s), broadcast or multicast control information associating a packet forwarding destination and a match condition including an identifier for identifying one of the broadcast domains or multicast domains.
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