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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2019
Applicant:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Inventors:

Darek Skalecki, Ottawa, CA;

Gerard L. Swinkels, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/122 (2022.01); H04L 47/11 (2022.01); H04L 43/0882 (2022.01); H04L 45/50 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 47/35 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/122 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 45/34 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/70 (2013.01); H04L 47/11 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/35 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for Segment Routing (SR) Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) in a network include receiving link utilization measurements at a Label Edge Router (LER) with the link utilization measurements flooded by one or more Label Switch Routers (LSRs); and, responsive to one or more of detecting congestion and underutilization on one or more links associated with an SR tunnel at the LER based on the received link utilization measurements, performing one or more actions at the LER to one or more of alleviate the congestion and re-optimize the underutilization. A state of the SR tunnel is maintained only at the LER through a label stack assigned at the LER, and the label stack includes one or more of a node Segment ID (SID) and an adjacency SID.


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