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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2010
Gregory Donald Troxel, Stow, MA (US);
Stephen Henry Polit, Belmont, MA (US);
Subramanian Ramanathan, Westford, MA (US);
Gregory Donald Troxel, Stow, MA (US);
Stephen Henry Polit, Belmont, MA (US);
Subramanian Ramanathan, Westford, MA (US);
Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A system comprising a plurality of nodes forming a network, the plurality of nodes comprising source nodes and destination nodes; wherein a propagation limit restricts the travel of link-state information transmitted by the sources nodes to a subset of destination nodes within the network. A network-layer protocol provided at a layer above that of the network facilitates communication between nodes within and outside of this subset of nodes.