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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tony T Lee, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Livingston, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 60 ; 370 94 ;
Abstract
A copy network capable of packet replication is disclosed. An encoding process transforms the set of copy numbers, specified in the headers of incoming packets, into a set of monotone address intervals which form new packet headers. This process is carried out by a running adder network and a set of dummy address encoders. A broadcast banyan network performs the packet replication according to a Boolean Interval Splitting Algorithm. Finally, trunk number translators determine the destinations of individual copies. The copy network is self-routing, non-blocking and has a constant packet latency.