US Patent Application 18354184. Control Plane Device Switching Method and Apparatus, and Forwarding-Control Separation System simplified abstract
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Control Plane Device Switching Method and Apparatus, and Forwarding-Control Separation System
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Control Plane Device Switching Method and Apparatus, and Forwarding-Control Separation System - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18354184 titled 'Control Plane Device Switching Method and Apparatus, and Forwarding-Control Separation System
Simplified Explanation
- The patent application describes a method for switching control plane (CP) devices in a forwarding-control separation system. - When a user plane (UP) device detects that communication performance with an active CP device is not normal, it sends a switching request to a standby CP device. - If a certain number of UP devices send the switching request, the standby CP device instructs all UP devices in the system to switch to the standby CP device. - The method aims to improve communication performance in the system by automatically switching to a standby CP device when the active CP device is not performing well.
Original Abstract Submitted
A control plane (CP) device switching method includes that when a user plane (UP) device in a forwarding-control separation system detects that performance of communication between the UP device and an active CP device does not meet a normal communication condition, and performance of communication between the UP device and a standby CP device meets the normal communication condition, the UP device sends a switching request to the standby CP device. When detecting that a quantity of UP devices that each send the switching request is greater than or equal to a first quantity threshold, the standby CP device may indicate each UP device in the forwarding-control separation system to switch to the standby CP device.
