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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2010
Bernd Gloss, Stuttgart, DE;
Bernd Gloss, Stuttgart, DE;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for mesh-wide capacity management in a mesh network (), in particular comprising mesh links () of different link technologies/with different local properties, the method comprising: signalling from at least one link resource manager associated with a mesh link () or a group () of mesh links of the mesh network () to at least one network capacity manager () information about a calculation model to be applied for calculating at least one flow performance characteristics, in particular a resource consumption, for establishing at least one packet-based traffic flow on the mesh link () or on the group () of mesh links. The invention also relates to a link resource manager, to a network capacity manager (), to a signaling system, and to a mesh network ().