Abstract: A GTP correlation cluster (GCC) can automatically program a network element to forward copies of packets originating from a mobile device and having a shared attribute to the same analytic server, regardless of the regions into which the mobile device moves. The GCC can monitor attributes of copies of control packets that the network element receives. In response to detecting a changed attribute within a control packet originating from a mobile device, the GCC can update a session map specific to that mobile device in order to cause packets having that changed attribute to be forwarded to the same port to which packets having the former attribute were being forwarded prior to the change. As a result, the network element can ensure that packets belonging to a particular session still are forwarded to the same analytic server even if the mobile device has moved to a different region.

Abstract: A GTP correlation cluster (GCC) can automatically program a network element to forward copies of packets originating from a mobile device and having a shared attribute to the same analytic server, regardless of the regions into which the mobile device moves. The GCC can monitor attributes of copies of control packets that the network element receives. In response to detecting a changed attribute within a control packet originating from a mobile device, the GCC can update a session map specific to that mobile device in order to cause packets having that changed attribute to be forwarded to the same port to which packets having the former attribute were being forwarded prior to the change. As a result, the network element can ensure that packets belonging to a particular session still are forwarded to the same analytic server even if the mobile device has moved to a different region.

Abstract: A flow of information over a network is controlled by a policing function placed at a data link layer of the network. For a full-duplex architecture, an accumulated count value for each packet of information received as input by a switching device is ascertained during a predetermined interval. The policing function at a data link layer determines if the accumulated count value has exceeded an interval bit rate based on a transmission rate set by a traffic contract at a networking layer higher than the data link layer. In response to the accumulated count value exceeding the interval bit rate, the switching device sends a PAUSE frame to halt transmission of the information. The half-duplex architecture, collision based backpressure and carrier-sense backpressure techniques are used by the policing function for enforcement of the traffic contracts.