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Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2014
Applicant:

Nigel Lawrence Bragg, Cambridge, GB;

Inventor:

Nigel Lawrence Bragg, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for validation of a packet transport network includes performing a header space analysis, with input headers to obtain output headers from the header space analysis, between one or more ingress points and a particular egress point; determining disjointness of the output headers; and determining validity of a point-to-point connection property of the packet transport network based on the disjointness of the output headers. The header space analysis allows near-real-time validation that packet transport flows in an Multiprotocol Label Switching-Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) network have been correctly programmed on the switches by a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller or other technique such that the correct label mappings have been made to carry a flow from a source to a destination, and all flows from any source to a destination are isolated from one another.


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Bragg, Nigel. (2017). Header space analysis extension systems and methods for transport networks (U.S. Patent No. 9819579). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9819579

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