Edge Server Traffic Flow Routing via Token-Based Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional edge server technologies face challenges in establishing a route for traffic flow that passes through desired applications, particularly in environments where terminals are unaware of applications from other organizations and where system administrators lack knowledge of third-party application configurations, leading to difficulties in ensuring security and filtering processes.
Innovation Solution
A route control device and method that utilize a 'token' to identify and control traffic flows, allowing the edge server to process packets such that they follow a specified route indicated by the token, ensuring compliance with predefined policies by generating and managing route indication information across multiple applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the terminal determines whether to implement security measures itself, then the terminal has autonomy in security decisions, but security policies may be omitted or not properly implemented
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces a route indication processor as an intermediary component in the edge server that receives route indication information from terminals and determines whether to implement security measures. This mediator resolves the contradiction by allowing terminals to initiate security requests while ensuring that the actual security policy implementation is controlled by the edge server, preventing omission of security measures while maintaining terminal autonomy in initiating protection.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system administrator configures the route manually, then the route can be customized, but the administrator must have knowledge of third-party application configurations which is not always available
Solution Approach 1:
The invention enables the route indication processor to automatically determine and configure routes based on route indication information received from terminals, without requiring manual configuration by system administrators. The system self-services by processing route requests autonomously, eliminating the need for administrators to have knowledge of third-party application configurations while still allowing customized route configuration through the automated determination process.
3Device complexity
If the edge server controls the route centrally, then route management is simplified, but terminals from other organizations cannot be properly routed through required applications
Solution Approach 1:
The invention implements local quality by allowing different organizations to have their own route indication information and policies specific to their terminals and applications. The route indication processor processes route requests from different organizations according to their specific requirements, enabling multi-organizational route control where each organization's traffic flow is handled with appropriate local policies while maintaining centralized processing in the edge server.
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AI summary
A route control device controls a route of a traffic flow in a server device that accommodates a plurality of entities. The route control device includes: a generator, a processor and a route controller. The generator generates first control information that indicates a right to indicate a route of the traffic flow in a first range of the server device. The processor receives first route indication information that indicates a route of the traffic flow and the first control information from a first entity in the plurality of entities and decides whether the first route indication information indicates a route in the first range. The route controller controls a route of the traffic flow based on the first route indication information when the first route indication information indicates a route in the first range.