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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2003
John Gregory Klincewicz, Ocean Township, NJ (US);
James Anthony Schmitt, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Richard Tekee Wong, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
John Gregory Klincewicz, Ocean Township, NJ (US);
James Anthony Schmitt, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Richard Tekee Wong, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for designing a network are disclosed. The network is designed wherein nodes originate and terminate traffic to keep delay related to node-to-node delay-sensitive communication below a specified threshold. The method obtains an initial network topology including links and traffic routing based on a volume of traffic, allocates a maximum delay to each link in the network topology in proportion to the square root of an imputed cost for each link, sizes a bandwidth required for each link based on a current traffic routing and at least one of a maximum delay allocated to the link, determines link lengths and reroutes traffic according to shortest paths with respect to the determined link lengths.