发明授权
- 专利标题: Communication of control and data path state for networks
- 专利标题(中): 网络控制和数据路径状态通信
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申请号: US10744838申请日: 2003-12-23
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公开(公告)号: US07774474B2公开(公告)日: 2010-08-10
- 发明人: Peter Ashwood-Smith , Darek Skalecki , James A. Sheilds , Antonela Paraschiv
- 申请人: Peter Ashwood-Smith , Darek Skalecki , James A. Sheilds , Antonela Paraschiv
- 申请人地址: CA St. Laurent, Quebec
- 专利权人: Nortel Networks Limited
- 当前专利权人: Nortel Networks Limited
- 当前专利权人地址: CA St. Laurent, Quebec
- 代理机构: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC
- 主分类号: G06F15/16
- IPC分类号: G06F15/16 ; H01R31/08
摘要:
A method and system for resynchronizing a control layer and a line layer by tracing the data path through the line layer and, at the control layer, reclaiming ownership of disowned connections corresponding to the traced data path. Beginning at a head-end controller, the data path is traced by identifying the next controller along the data path and sending a set-up message containing the local state information necessary for a second controller to identify the connection within its associated network element that is associated with the data path. The second controller receives the set-up message and claims ownership of its portion of the data path. It then identifies the next leg or hop in the data path, modifies the set-up message to add data regarding the next hop, and sends the modified set-up message to the next controller along the data path. The process is repeated so as to dynamically establish a control connection corresponding to and synchronized with the existing data path.