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Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2004
Applicants:

J. Fernando Cuervo, Ottawa, CA;

Michel Sim, Ottawa, CA;

Pierrick Jacques Guingo, Ottawa, CA;

Arnoldus Joannes Jacobus Jansen, Manotick, CA;

Inventors:

J. Fernando Cuervo, Ottawa, CA;

Michel Sim, Ottawa, CA;

Pierrick Jacques Guingo, Ottawa, CA;

Arnoldus Joannes Jacobus Jansen, Manotick, CA;

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/22 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Apparatus and method are provided for distributing service domain reachability information across domain boundaries, thereby allowing domain management systems to determine routing for cross-domain services even when the domains have different technologies or administrators. A Service Domain Manager within each domain advertises to neighbouring domains which services it supports. A domain which receives such advertisements forwards the advertisement on to other domains. Each SDM builds a routing information table which specifies the service, the domain, the next hop, and optionally user defined metrics. The routing information table does not include end-point addresses, in order to keep the size of the table manageable. In this way, the NMS of each domain obtains an end-to-end view of service routes.


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