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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2013
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Pramod V. Koppol, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Pramod V. Koppol, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
In general, various capabilities related to fault-resilient services within communication networks are presented. The services may include broadcast services, multicast services, unicast services, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof. A capability for providing local protection to unicast traffic at a node associated with a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for providing local protection to multicast traffic at a node associated with a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for constructing a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for constructing a pair of redundant trees includes partitioning a graph into a pair of partitions based on a link coloring mechanism and constructing the pair of redundant trees based on the pair of partitions.