Systems and Methods for Sharing a Control Connection

• Main Authors: Gill, Ajeet Pal Singh, Agarwal, Vivek, Qumruzzaman, Sheikh, Chintallapudi, Ravi Kiran, Thoria, Samir, Tangirala, Srilatha, Hardikar, Rahul
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.06.2023
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

In one embodiment, a method includes onboarding, by an edge router, a first tenant from a network management system and determining, by the edge router, a mapping of a tenant identifier associated with the first tenant to a controller identifier associated with a controller. The method also includes reserving, by the edge router, a port number in a kernel for the first tenant and inserting, by the edge router, the tenant identifier into a first control packet. The method further includes communicating, by the edge router, the first control packet to the controller via an encrypted control connection during a first peering session. The first peering session shares the encrypted control connection with a second peering session.