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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
Donald E. Smith, Lexington, MA (US);
Rina R. Schneur, Lexington, MA (US);
Raghavendran Sivaraman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Lawrence W. Crom, Millington, NJ (US);
Roger L. Tobin, Arlington, MA (US);
Hui Liu, Lexington, MA (US);
Donald E. Smith, Lexington, MA (US);
Rina R. Schneur, Lexington, MA (US);
Raghavendran Sivaraman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Lawrence W. Crom, Millington, NJ (US);
Roger L. Tobin, Arlington, MA (US);
Hui Liu, Lexington, MA (US);
Verizon Services Corp., Ashburn, VA (US);
Abstract
There is assigned at least one first cost for expanding at least one link to a circuit-switched network that is part of a hybrid network comprising the circuit switched network and a packet switched network. All paths in the packet switched network are represented with a virtual link. A cost is assigned to the virtual link. An integer programming problem is solved to determine a number of links to add to the network, the integer programming problem having as inputs a model of the hybrid network and a demand forecast matrix.