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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2005
Jonathan Dean Segel, Ottawa, CA;
Bashar Said Bou-diab, Ottawa, CA;
Jonathan Dean Segel, Ottawa, CA;
Bashar Said Bou-Diab, Ottawa, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A Session Admission Control (SAC) for negotiating admission control in a multi-services communications network including multicast services is described. The module distributes the admission process between a centralized decision function (SAC-PDP) and a distributed decision function (SAC-M) in a fashion that solves admission control scaling problems. The mechanism for interaction between the SAC-PDP and SAC-M is defined. Mechanisms are defined for the SAC-PDP to discover or learn the network capacity against which the admission control decisions will be made. Systems are also described for incorporating SAC-M in multicast replication points in the network, allowing multicast replication points to participate in the admission control process.