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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2012
Thomas P. Chu, Englishtown, NJ (US);
Ahmet Akyamac, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Huseyin Uzunalioglu, Millington, NJ (US);
Thomas P. Chu, Englishtown, NJ (US);
Ahmet Akyamac, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Huseyin Uzunalioglu, Millington, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus of providing a non-overlapping ring-mesh network topology which reduces costs (e.g., the number of network links) while providing resiliency to failure and meeting QoS requirements (e.g., network delay attributed to traversing the network architecture). In particular, a set of target nodes belonging to a cluster are connected through N rings. Each node is member of all N rings and no link between nodes in a ring is duplicated in another ring.