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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Pradeep G. Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kanwar D. Singh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a network node in a resource reservation protocol (RSVP) based label switch path (LSP) network, the method including: receiving a message to establish a LSP; receiving a resv message; initiating the establishment of a backup path; determining that the establishment of the backup path failed; setting a backup timer; and initiating the establishment of a backup path upon the expiration of the backup timer.