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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2012
Sina Mirtorabi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abhay Roy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sina Mirtorabi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abhay Roy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for generating efficient flooding tree paths in a network. At a node device in a network, a unicast message is sent to a plurality of node devices in the network. The node device obtains an identifier associated with each of the node devices in the network. The identifier contains information indicating node connectivity for each of the node devices. A selected node device is then identified. The selected node device is one of the node devices in the network that has a lowest identifier value indicating a lowest number of connected node devices to the selected node device in the network. The selected node device is classified as a root flooding tree node device. A flooding tree is generated by performing a shortest path first operation from the selected node device to the plurality of node devices in the network.