Method, device and system for controlling network path

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9755909-B2
Application number	US-201414575386-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2014
Priority date	Jun 28, 2012
Publication date	Sep 5, 2017
Grant date	Sep 5, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a device, and a system for controlling a network path, where the method includes: the first control device generates path information for a first AP according to network topology information, and generates first forwarding information for the first AP according to acquired forwarding resource information of the first AP and the path information, and sends the first forwarding information to the first AP; the first control device determines that a second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information, sends the path information to a second control device for managing the second AP, so that the second control device generates second forwarding information for the second AP according to the path information and the acquired forwarding resource information of the second AP, and sends the second forwarding information to the second AP.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a network path, comprising:
generating, by a first control device, path information for a first access point (AP) according to network topology information, and generating first forwarding information for the first AP according to acquired forwarding resource information of the first AP and the path information, and sending the first forwarding information to the first AP, wherein the forwarding resource information of the first AP comprises a label space, a media access control (MAC) address and port information of the first AP;
determining, by the first control device, that a second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information, sending the path information to a second control device for managing the second AP; and
wherein the determining, by the first control device, that the second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information comprises: determining, by the first control device, that a second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information, when the second AP is included in the path information and the first control device has no forwarding resource information of the second AP.

2. The method for controlling a network path according to claim 1 , wherein the path information comprises bidirectional path information between the first control device and the first AP and bidirectional path information between the second control device and the first AP.

3. The method for controlling a network path according to claim 1 , wherein the path information comprises bidirectional path information between the first control device and the first AP.

4. The method for controlling a network path according to claim 1 , wherein the path information comprises bidirectional path information between the second control device and the first AP.

5. The method for controlling a network path according to claim 1 , wherein before the generating, by the first control device, the path information for the first AP according to the network topology information, the method further comprises:
receiving, by the first control device, the forwarding resource information sent by the first AP.

6. The method for controlling a network path according to claim 5 , wherein before the receiving, by the first control device, the forwarding resource information sent by the first AP, the method further comprises:
requesting, by the first control device, the forwarding resource information from the first AP.

7. A first control device, comprising:
a hardware; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer-executable instructions executed by the hardware to perform a method that comprises:
generating path information for a first access point (AP) according to network topology information, and generating first forwarding information for the first AP according to acquired forwarding resource information of the first AP and the path information, and sending the first forwarding information to the first AP, wherein the forwarding resource information of the first AP comprises a label space, a media access control (MAC) address and port information of the first AP;
determining that a second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information, and sending the path information to a second control device for managing the second AP; and
wherein determining that the second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information comprises: determining that a second AP which is not managed by the first control device is included in the path information, when the second AP is included in the path information and the first control device has no forwarding resource information of the second AP.

8. The first control device according to claim 7 , wherein the path information comprises bidirectional path information between the first control device and the first AP and bidirectional path information between the second control device and the first AP.

9. The first control device according to claim 7 , wherein the path information comprises bidirectional path information between the first control device and the first AP.

10. The first control device according to claim 7 , wherein the path information comprises bidirectional path information between the second control device and the first AP.

11. The first control device according to claim 7 , wherein before generating the path information for the first AP according to the network topology information, the method further comprises:
receiving the forwarding resource information sent by the first AP.

12. The first control device according to claim 11 , wherein before receiving the forwarding resource information sent by the first AP, the method further comprises:
requesting the forwarding resource information from the first AP.

13. An access point (AP), comprising:
a hardware; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer-executable instructions executed by the hardware to perform a method that comprises:
sending forwarding resource information to a first control device and a second control device, respectively, wherein the forwarding resource information of the first AP comprises a label space, a media access control (MAC) address and port information of the first AP;
receiving first forwarding information sent by the first control device and second forwarding information sent by the second control device;
determining valid forwarding information according to the first forwarding information and the second forwarding information, and forwarding a received packet according to the valid forwarding information;
wherein the first forwarding information comprises a first priority that is delivered by the first control device to the AP; the second forwarding information comprises a second priority that is delivered by the second control device to the AP; and
the method further comprises: selecting the first forwarding information as the valid forwarding information, when the first priority is higher than the second priority,
wherein the first forwarding information is based on the forwarding resource information sent to the first control device and the second forwarding information is based on the forwarding resource information sent to the second control device.

14. The access point according to claim 13 , wherein the method further comprises: selecting one of the first forwarding information and the second forwarding information as the valid forwarding information, according to a preset policy.

15. The access point according to claim 13 , wherein:
sending the forwarding resource information to the first control device and the second control device, respectively comprises:
sending the forwarding resource information to the first control device, according to a received first forwarding resource information acquiring request which is sent by the first control device; and sending the forwarding resource information to the second control device, according to a received second forwarding resource information acquiring request which is sent by the second control device.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xiong Yi
• Wu Xiaoqian
• Yan Changjiang
• Hu Jiehui

Classifications

• H04W24/02

  Arrangements for optimising operational condition · CPC title

• H04W40/00

  Communication routing or communication path finding · CPC title

• H04L41/12 Primary

  Discovery or management of network topologies · CPC title

• H04L41/122 Primary

  of virtualised topologies, e.g. software-defined networks [SDN] or network function virtualisation [NFV] · CPC title