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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2021
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Ankur Jain, Gurgaon, IN;
John Wade Cherrington, Salt Spring Island, CA;
Suvendu Kumar Barik, Noida, IN;
Sourabh Vijay, Jaipur, IN;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include receiving a request for a path from a source node to a destination node in a network with the request including N unordered inclusion nodes, N≥1; adding a virtual vertex in a graph with edges connected to each of the N inclusion nodes, wherein the graph includes the virtual vertex, vertices representing nodes in the network, and edges representing links; determining a shortest path from the source node to the virtual vertex and removing an edge from a first inclusion node, that is on the shortest path, from the virtual vertex; if N>1, determining a shortest path N times to find path segments between the N inclusion nodes, removing an edge from each of the N inclusion nodes from the virtual vertex when on a corresponding shortest path; and determining a shortest path from a last inclusion node to the destination node.