摘要:
A technique of operating a network node of a multicast communication network comprising a plurality of network nodes which are interconnected with each other by communication links is provided, wherein the network node is associate with a common source network node. A method implementation of the technique comprises: determining a first path which connects the network node to the common source network node along a primary network tree, and determining a second path which connects the network node to the common source network node along a secondary network tree, wherein the first path and the second path show redundancy with respect to each other; receiving, at the network node, multicast data from the common source network node via the first path; triggering, by the network node, reception of multicast data from the common source network node via the second path if the network node detects a failure of the first path (e.g., determines that no multicast data is received via the first path).
摘要:
A failure detection mechanism provides enhancements to PIM-SM based fast re-route techniques. A network node upon detecting a loss of connection determines whether it can re-route multicast data traffic. If the network node does not have a failure-free secondary path, it can originate a notification packet and send it to the downstream parts of a multicast tree. The notification packet can trigger one or more downstream nodes to switch-over to redundant secondary paths to re-route the multicast data traffic.
摘要:
A method supports incremental deployment of maximally redundant trees-fast reroute (MRT-FRR) by supporting MRT-FRR within an island of nodes in the network. A destination node and next hop failure selected to calculate detour paths. The clean set of nodes is calculated. The clean set of nodes is expanded with extended island candidate nodes that are reachable by a border node within the island via shortest path first (SPF) to the destination node that does not pass through the failed next hop. The extended island candidate nodes that are reachable by the border node within the island via SPF are part of an extended island. An MRT is calculated for each extended island candidate node. A candidate node is selected from the clean set of nodes according to a configured optimization option to serve as the endpoint of detour path to a destination node.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for controlling downloading of video segments or segmented video stream to a subscriber client unit, and a subscriber client unit adapted to perform said method. One object of the invention is to guarantee seamless playback and the optimal server load. Said object is by a method and a subscriber client unit that is controlled by a segment selector (SSA) and a server bandwidth control (SBC) algorithm.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for synchronizing local databases maintained control plane (CP) nodes in a GMPLS network. CP nodes that are not involved in path computation do not need to store the TE information contained in opaque link state advertisements (LSAs). These CP nodes only store that part of an opaque LS which is used during the flooding procedure to verify if the LS is new or updated. This verification is based on a few fields of the LSA that contain link state (LS) identifying information. A CP node that is not involved in path computation stores only the LS identifying information and discards the remainder after the LSA is relayed to it neighbor CP nodes.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of selecting a data source node from a plurality of data source nodes, the selected data source node being used to send data to a data requesting node over a packet data network. The method includes, at an intermediate node of the network, intercepting at least one message sent to or from the data requesting node, the message(s) relating to data source node suitability, determining a cost of communication between the data requesting node and each of the data source nodes to which the message(s) relate, and influencing data source node suitability information sent to the data requesting node to take account of the cost to enable the data requesting node to use the information to select a data source node.
摘要:
An upstream activation mechanism provides enhancements to PIM-SM based fast re-route in a multicast communication network, where secondary paths provides redundancy to a multicast tree and are on standby to reduce bandwidth usage when there is no failure in the network. Upon receiving an indication of a loss of connection to the primary path of the multicast tree network, a network node that has a failure-free secondary path to a common source node of the multicast tree sends an activation packet upstream toward the common source node via the failure-free secondary path. The activation packet causes one or more upstream nodes to unblock their respective outgoing interfaces to thereby activate transmission of the multicast data traffic on the failure-free secondary path.
摘要:
A method supports incremental deployment of maximally redundant trees-fast reroute (MRT-FRR) by supporting MRT-FRR within an island of nodes in the network. A destination node and next hop failure selected to calculate detour paths. The clean set of nodes is calculated. The clean set of nodes is expanded with extended island candidate nodes that are reachable by a border node within the island via shortest path first (SPF) to the destination node that does not pass through the failed next hop. The extended island candidate nodes that are reachable by the border node within the island via SPF are part of an extended island. An MRT is calculated for each extended island candidate node. A candidate node is selected from the clean set of nodes according to a configured optimization option to serve as the endpoint of detour path to a destination node.
摘要:
A system, method, and node for implementing lightweight Not-via Internet Protocol fast reroutes of a packet in a telecommunications network between a first node and a destination node. The method determines a shortest path between the first node and the destination node and two redundant trees between the first node and the destination node. Each redundant tree provides an alternate path from the first node and the destination node. When a failure in a link between the first node and the destination node is detected, the packet is forwarded to the destination node via a first redundant tree, and if not available, via a second redundant tree. If the second redundant tree is not available, the packet is dropped. If no failure in the link between the first node and the destination node is detected, the packet is sent via the determined shortest path to the destination node.
摘要:
Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of data packets in a packet-switched network. When a first end-host (A) sends an address query to a DNS system (300) for a second end-host, the DNS system responds by providing a sender key created from a destination key registered for the second end-host, if the first end-host is authorized to send packets to the second end-host. Thereby, the first end-host, if authorized, is able to get across data packets to the second end-host by attaching a sender tag (TAG) generated from the sender key, as ingress tag to each transmitted data packet. A router (302) in the network matches an ingress tag in a received packet with entries in a forwarding table and sends out the packet on an output port (X) according to a matching entry. Otherwise, the router discards the packet if no matching entry is found in the table.