US 12,237,997 B2
Compute-aware routing method and apparatus
Ruobin Zheng, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/692,868.
Application 17/692,868 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/115154, filed on Sep. 14, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910866871.4 (CN), filed on Sep. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0200898 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 45/30 (2022.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 45/74 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/30 (2013.01) [H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A compute-aware routing method, comprising:
receiving, by a compute-aware router, compute-aware routing information of at least one computing container, wherein the compute-aware routing information comprises a computing code or a computing metric;
determining, by the compute-aware router, a routing information base (RIB) based on the compute-aware routing information; wherein either the RIB comprises a function identifier (FID) of a function that can be provided by the computing container or the RIB comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address prefix of the computing container in which the function is located and either one of the computing code or the computing metric; and wherein the function comprises at least one of a software-defined computing program, a function program, a service software, or a microservice that is deployed in the computing container; and
receiving, by the compute-aware router, a packet, and forwarding the packet based on a forwarding information base (FIB), wherein the FIB is determined based on the RIB, and the FIB comprises the FID or the IP address prefix.