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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2003
Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, TX (US);
Maher Ali, Richardson, TX (US);
Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, TX (US);
Maher Ali, Richardson, TX (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A processing device (CM) programmed to determine homing paths for a plurality of virtual private local area network services in an Ethernet network comprising a plurality of PE nodes. The processing device is programmed to perform the steps of computing (-) a plurality of sets of different homing configurations, computing () a cost function for each set of different homing configurations in the plurality of sets of different homing configurations, and selecting () a set of homing configurations from the plurality of sets of different homing configurations in response to a respective computed cost function.