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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicants:
Pradeep G Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kanwar D Singh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jaishal Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srikrishnan Venkataraman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Pradeep G Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kanwar D Singh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jaishal Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srikrishnan Venkataraman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/729 (2013.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/913 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/124 (2013.01); H04L 45/125 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/35 (2013.01); H04L 47/724 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for causing network routers such as Area Border Routers (ABRs) to use a preferred tie-breaking mechanism to select one path in the event of an ERO expansion operation resulting in multiple equal cost paths.