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Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yukihiro Togari, Tokyo, JP;

Hisashi Kojima, Tokyo, JP;

Takeshi Kuwahara, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control apparatus configured to, in a network constituted by the multiple communication apparatuses, control one or more anchor nodes designated in advance among the multiple communication apparatuses, includes: a route creation unit configured to create route information including labels of communication apparatuses or links to be passed through, based on an input required condition; a route compression unit configured to divide the labels included in the route information in units of anchor nodes, and compress at least a portion of the labels included in the route information into a compressed label that can be expanded in at least one anchor node among the communication apparatuses determined based on the route information, so as not to exceed a processing limit of a communication apparatus determined based on the route information; and a distribution unit configured to distribute information for expanding the compressed label to the at least one anchor node.


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