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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1998
Debasis Mitra, Summit, NJ (US);
John A. Morrison, New Providence, NJ (US);
Kajamalai Gopalaswamy Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
We describe a method for solving the joint problem of optimal routing and optimal bandwidth allocation in a network that supports plural subnetworks and plural communication services. Our method involves, for each source-destination pair communicating via a given subnetwork and a given class of service, determining a traffic rate to be offered to each of a set of permissible routes between that source and that destination, in the given subnetwork and service class. Our method further involves allocating a respective bandwidth to each link of each subnetwork. Significantly, the determinations of traffic rate to be offered, and the allocations of bandwidth to respective links of subnetworks, are performed in a mutually responsive manner.