Patent ID: 9184983
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising an application cross-stratum optimization (CSO) gateway (ACG) comprising: at least one processor configured to: at least one transmitter and at least one receiver coupled to the processor and configured to establish a CSO interface with a network CSO gateway (NCG) operating in the network stratum and not the application stratum using a CSO protocol (CSOP), wherein the CSO interface enables an exchange of a plurality of CSOP messages to support joint application-network resource allocation, provisioning, and optimization, and wherein the ACG is further configured to transmit a duration of service profile to the NCG via the CSOP interface to indicate a requested service time of an application, wherein a first of the plurality of CSOP messages comprises a CSOP message header with one or more objects, and wherein the CSOP message header comprises a version field, a message type field, and a message length field, wherein the objects comprise an authentication profile object at the end of the objects in the first CSOP message, wherein the authentication profile object comprises an authentication object class field, a length field, a sub-type field, a Security Parameter Index (SPI) field, and a token, wherein the objects comprise a virtual network topology (VNT) object that comprises a location profile (L) field, a number of sources field, a number of destinations field, a version (V) of Internet Protocol (IP), a plurality of flags, a service request identifier (ID) number, and one of more optional Type/Length/Values (TLVs), and wherein the L field is set to 0 to indicate a point-to-point (P-P) connectivity, 1 to indicate a point-to-multipoint (P-MP) connectivity, 2 to indicate a multipoint-to-point (MP-P) connectivity, 3 to indicate multipoint-to-multipoint (MP-MP) connectivity, or 4 to indicate any-cast connectivity for multi-destination.