Patent ID: 11929925
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 27:
28. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
encapsulating, at a router, a payload in a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) header that defines a connectionless GRE tunnel;
encapsulating, at the router, the payload and the GRE header in a GRE control header;
encapsulating, at the router, the payload, the GRE header, and the GRE control header in at least one reliable transport header associated with a connection formed using a reliable transport layer; and
conveying the payload, the GRE header, the GRE control header, and the at least one reliable transport header over the reliable transport layer.