The present invention concerns load balancing for control plane traffic of a network element comprising multiple CPU nodes assigned to a common external IP address in a packet data enabled telecommunication network. IP messages addressed to the network element are received, and received IP messages comprising GTP-C messages are identified. A TEID-C value of a GTP-C message is identified and the GTP-C message is forwarded to a CPU node based on its identified TEID-C value, if its identified TEID-C value does not equal zero.
申请公布号
WO03107184(A1)
申请公布日期
2003.12.24
申请号
WO2003FI00338
申请日期
2003.04.29
申请人
NOKIA CORPORATION;NI, SHAOJI;JOKIAHO, TIMO;PANHELAINEN, MIKA;LATVALA, MIKAEL;TAKALA, VESA-PEKKA