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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
May. 27, 2003
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Yuri J. Breitbart, Silver Lake, OH (US);
Minos N. Garofalakis, Morristown, NJ (US);
Rajeev Rastogi, New Providence, NJ (US);
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Yuri J. Breitbart, Silver Lake, OH (US);
Minos N. Garofalakis, Morristown, NJ (US);
Rajeev Rastogi, New Providence, NJ (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system for, and method of, determining a physical topology of a network having multiple subnets. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a skeleton path initializer that uses addressing information from elements in the network to develop a collection of skeleton paths of direct physical connections between labeled ones of the elements, the skeleton paths traversing multiple of the subnets and (2) a skeleton path refiner, coupled to the skeleton path initializer, that refines the collection by inferring, from the direct physical connections and path constraints derived therefrom, other physical connections in the skeleton paths involving unlabeled ones of the elements.