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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2023
Applicant:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guandong, CN;
Inventor:
Donald Eggleston Eastlake, III, Apopka, FL (US);
Assignee:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/42 (2022.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and network device for root selection, where the method includes: obtaining link costs of links connecting a plurality of nodes in the network; selecting a weighting parameter based at least partly on the link costs; calculating node costs corresponding to each of the plurality of the nodes based on the link costs and the weighting parameter; and selecting a node as the root node based on the node costs, wherein the root node is selected from the plurality of nodes.