Inventors
Burak Gorkemli, Murat Parlakisik, Nazli Guney, Seyhan Civanlar, Oguz Sunay, Uygar Ozen, Melih Karaman, Bulent Kaytaz
Publication date
2015/7/28
Patent office
US
Patent number
9094285
Application number
13750038
Description
Controllers in a Software Defined Network (SDN) automati cally discover and authenticate each other as part of the con trol plane operations, without any need for manual configu ration of other controllers. The new capability of such controllers is based on Controller-Advertisement messages transferred between controllers in the same or different
SDNs. In doing so, multiple controllers can be used for load sharing, improved reliability under failure of a controller by enabling seamless take over and recovery. Moreover, control lers can cooperate to enable end-to-end services to work across multiple SDNs. Controller-Advertisement messages
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