Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bicasting using non-congruent paths in a loop-free routing topology having routing arcs
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Application No.: US14754850Application Date: 2015-06-30
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Publication No.: US09794167B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Pascal Thubert , Patrice Bellagamba , Ijsbrand Wijnands
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Agent Leon R. Turkevich
- Main IPC: H04L12/705
- IPC: H04L12/705 ; H04L12/735 ; H04L12/707 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/751

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method comprises creating, in a computing network, a loop-free routing topology comprising a plurality of routing arcs for reaching a destination network node, each routing arc comprising a first network node as a first end of the routing arc, a second network node as a second end of the routing arc, and at least a third network node configured for routing any network traffic along the routing arc toward the destination node via any one of the first or second ends of the routing arc, the loop-free routing topology providing first and second non-congruent paths; and forwarding bicasting data, comprising a data packet in a first direction from a network node and a bicasted copy of the data packet in a second direction from the network node, concurrently to the destination node respectively via the first and second non-congruent paths.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150312138A1 BICASTING USING NON-CONGRUENT PATHS IN A LOOP-FREE ROUTING TOPOLOGY HAVING ROUTING ARCS Public/Granted day:2015-10-29
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