APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTICAST TRAFFIC IN AN OPENFLOW ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for establishing, when multicast traffic needs to be processed in a network, a ring-type transmission path through open flow switches and transmitting multicast traffic through the ring-type transmission path. To this end, an apparatus for processing multicast traffic in an open flow environment comprises a network topology and configuration information management unit creating a network topology and related switch configuration information on the basis of switch configuration information received from at least one open flow switch, and a path information processing unit generating ring-type transmission path information for processing traffic for a video conference service on the basis of the network topology and related switch configuration information when the traffic is received, and setting the ring-type transmission path information in an open flow switch used for the video conference service to establish a ring-type transmission path.