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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2013
Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
William Nii Tetteh, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christophe Jean-Claude Merlin, Malden, MA (US);
Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus arranged for efficient usage of network resources. Embodiments include nodes linked together, and the links having differing costs, e.g., bandwidth, frequency, and/or monetary cost, or any combination of these. Embodiments may identify neighboring nodes as either next-hop-neighbors or non-next-hop-neighbors. Next-hop-neighbors lie on the shortest path to any node, while non-next-hop-neighbors are nodes linked directly to a node, but the link is more costly than an alternative multi-hop path to the same node. Accordingly, embodiments may suppress packets to the non-next-hop-neighbors.