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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2024
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Marc Holness, Ottawa, CA;
CIENA CORPORATION, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a network topology that includes a group of nodes and a number of segment reference values corresponding to network segments between pairs of nodes of the group of nodes. A message including a path index that corresponds to a particular network path of an indexed arrangement of unique paths is received, at a node of the group of nodes. The particular network path includes a particular sequence of nodes corresponding to the path index. The path index is decoded to obtain a decoding of the particular network path and a next node along the network path is identified according to the decoding of the particular network path allowing the message to be forwarded to the identified next node. Other embodiments are disclosed.