Patent ID: 11949560
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a network device of a network, a border gateway protocol (BGP) flow specification route associated with creation of an overlay network slice in the network,
wherein the BGP flow specification route includes data identifying rate limiting flows in the overlay network slice, redirect flows in the overlay network slice, and drop flows in the overlay network slice;

creating, by the network device, a new routing instance based on the BGP flow specification route;
associating, by the network device, interfaces defined by the BGP flow specification route with virtual private network (VPN) members;
assigning, by the network device and when the BGP flow specification route identifies VPN parameters, the VPN parameters based on the BGP flow specification route;
generating, by the network device and when the BGP flow specification route does not identify the VPN parameters, the VPN parameters; and
advertising, by the network device, the VPN parameters within the network to cause the network to generate the overlay network slice.