Patent ID: 11870687
Assignee: ORANGE
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for sending data packets encapsulated according to Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol, implemented by a sending device of an Internet Protocol (IP)/MPLS network, the method being executed by the sending device and comprising:
obtaining an identifier representative of a group of data packets comprising at least one data packet,
inserting said identifier into at least a first part of a data field associated with an Entropy Label (EL) label or with an Entropy Label Indicator (ELI) label of the MPLS protocol of said at least one data packet, at least a second part of said data field being associated with an Entropy Label (EL) label and comprising a value of an entropy,
wherein said data field is comprised in a list consisting of:
a Label data field of the EL label,
a Traffic Class (TC) data field of the EL label,
a Time To Live (TTL) data field of the EL label,
a TC data field of the ELI label, and
a TTL data field of the ELI label, and

sending said at least one data packet to a reading device of the IP/MPLS network.