Systems and techniques are described for a centralized management system operating within a virtual machine which configures, monitors, analyzes, and manages an adaptive private network (APN) to provide a discovery process that learns about changes to the APN through a network control node (NCN) that is a single point of control of the APN. The discovery process automatically learns a new topology of the network without relying on configuration information of nodes in the APN. Network statistics are based on a timeline of network operations that a user selected to review. Such discovery and timeline review is separate from stored configuration information. If there was a network change, the changes either show up or not show up in the discovery process based on the selected time line. Configuration changes can be made from the APN VM system by loading the latest configuration on the APN under control of the NCN.

A terminal function device and a proxy transfer agent device generate, on mutually-connecting physical lines, logical paths to be correlated with physical port transmitting/receiving units. In a case of receiving a signal received at one of the physical port transmitting/receiving units, the terminal function device sends the signal out to a logical path corresponding to the physical port transmitting/receiving unit that received this signal. In a case of receiving a signal through the logical path, the proxy transfer agent device correlates the signal with information identifying the physical port transmitting/receiving unit corresponding to the logical path that received this signal, and transfers the information along with the signal. Ina case of sending out a signal to the logical path, the proxy transfer agent device sends out the signal to the logical path corresponding to the physical port transmitting/receiving unit specified as a transfer destination of the signal. In a case of receiving a signal through the logical path, the terminal function device sends out the signal from the physical port transmitting/receiving unit corresponding to the logical path that received the signal.

A terminal function device and a proxy transfer agent device generate, on mutually-connecting physical lines, logical paths to be correlated with physical port transmitting/receiving units. In a case of receiving a signal received at one of the physical port transmitting/receiving units, the terminal function device sends the signal out to a logical path corresponding to the physical port transmitting/receiving unit that received this signal. In a case of receiving a signal through the logical path, the proxy transfer agent device correlates the signal with information identifying the physical port transmitting/receiving unit corresponding to the logical path that received this signal, and transfers the information along with the signal. Ina case of sending out a signal to the logical path, the proxy transfer agent device sends out the signal to the logical path corresponding to the physical port transmitting/receiving unit specified as a transfer destination of the signal. In a case of receiving a signal through the logical path, the terminal function device sends out the signal from the physical port transmitting/receiving unit corresponding to the logical path that received the signal.

Some examples relate to controlling network traffic pertaining to a domain name based on a Domain Name System-Internet Protocol address (DNS-IP) mapping, An example includes receiving, in a cloud computing system, a local DNS-IP mapping for a domain name from respective Access Points (APs) in a virtual local area network (VLAN) along with geographical information of respective APs; generating a global DNS-IP mapping database comprising the local DNS-IP mapping for the domain name received from respective APs in the VLAN along with geographical information of respective APs, in the cloud computing system; and determining appropriate APs to distribute the global DNS-IP mapping, based on location information of respective APs.

Some examples relate to controlling network traffic pertaining to a domain name based on a Domain Name System-Internet Protocol address (DNS-IP) mapping, An example includes receiving, in a cloud computing system, a local DNS-IP mapping for a domain name from respective Access Points (APs) in a virtual local area network (VLAN) along with geographical information of respective APs; generating a global DNS-IP mapping database comprising the local DNS-IP mapping for the domain name received from respective APs in the VLAN along with geographical information of respective APs, in the cloud computing system; and determining appropriate APs to distribute the global DNS-IP mapping, based on location information of respective APs.

There is set forth herein obtaining data traffic monitoring data, the data traffic monitoring data being in dependence on monitoring of traffic received by a container of a protected computing environment; obtaining data traffic monitoring data, the data traffic monitoring data being in dependence on monitoring of traffic received by a processing resource of a computing environment; obtaining a state of the processing resource and provisioning a utility processing resource to include the state of the processing resource; and configuring the computing environment to route data traffic to the utility processing resource.

A reception unit (210) receives an addition requesting frame for requesting addition of a new flow. A first search unit (241) performs, using a network-information database (280), a first search for searching for a schedule and a path assignable to the new flow without the schedule and the path of each existing flow being changed, when the addition requesting frame is received. A second search unit (242) performs a second search for changing the schedule and the path of each existing flow and searching for the schedule and the path assignable to the new flow, using the network-information database, when the schedule and the path assignable to the new flow have not been found by the first search. A response unit (260) transmits an addition responding frame.

The disclosure relates to a 5.sup.th generation (5G) or 6.sup.th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a first network entity in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a second network entity, a first message including data to be used in a plurality of networks included in a virtual network (VN) group, a VN identifier (ID), group data, and receiving, from the second network entity in response to the first message, a second message including the data to be used in the plurality of networks, the VN ID, the group data, information indicating a processing result related to the first message.

The disclosure relates to a 5.sup.th generation (5G) or 6.sup.th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a first network entity in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a second network entity, a first message including data to be used in a plurality of networks included in a virtual network (VN) group, a VN identifier (ID), group data, and receiving, from the second network entity in response to the first message, a second message including the data to be used in the plurality of networks, the VN ID, the group data, information indicating a processing result related to the first message.

This application relates to a distributed software-defined network (“DSDN”) for dynamically configuring and managing a wireless communication network. A plurality of DSDN nodes are connected to each other via a plurality of communication paths. Each communication path directly connects two DSDN nodes. Each DSDN node can provide DSDN configurations across diverse and disparate networks by normalizing its data plane network traffic through translation and packet encapsulation. Furthermore, the DSDN node can provide an architecture tolerant of network interruptions and network system fluctuations. For example, in the case of any one of the DSDN node's network interruptions from other DSDN nodes, the DSDN can provide network reconfiguration using network configuration rules stored in a control plane of each DSDN node. Therefore, various embodiments can increase network reliability by the multiple nodes within a software-defined network independently managing its control plane in response to changed network conditions.