Control-Plane Interface Between Layers in a Multilayer Network
    71.
    发明申请
    Control-Plane Interface Between Layers in a Multilayer Network 审中-公开
    多层网络层之间的控制平面接口

    公开(公告)号:US20130232193A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-09-05

    申请号:US13783368

    申请日:2013-03-03

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06

    CPC分类号: H04L29/06047 H04L67/42

    摘要: In one embodiment, information is exchanged between independent control planes of different layers in a multilayer network, such as, but not limited to, between a packet switching client-layer network and an optical server-layer network. This exchanged information includes signaling regarding a server-layer communications service, having server-layer characteristics, within the server-layer network for use in communicatively coupling at least two devices of the client-layer network. In one embodiment, the client-layer network specifies at least one of these server-layer characteristics that the server-layer communications service provided by the server-layer network must have. In one embodiment, the server-layer network signal to the client-layer network at least one of these server-layer characteristics of the existing server-layer communications service. In one embodiment, this signaling between the client-layer network and the server-layer network includes sending extended Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) messages.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,信息在多层网络中的不同层的独立控制平面之间交换,诸如但不限于分组交换客户端层网络和光服务器层网络之间。 这种交换的信息包括关于在服务器层网络内具有服务器层特性的服务器层通信服务的信令,用于通信地耦合客户端层网络的至少两个设备。 在一个实施例中,客户端层网络指定由服务器层网络提供的服务器层通信服务必须具有的这些服务器层特性中的至少一个。 在一个实施例中,服务器层网络向客户端层网络发送现有服务器层通信服务的这些服务器层特性中的至少一个的信号。 在一个实施例中,客户端层网络和服务器层网络之间的这种信令包括发送扩展资源预留协议(RSVP)消息。

    MANAGING FATE-SHARING IN SHARED-MEDIA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    72.
    发明申请
    MANAGING FATE-SHARING IN SHARED-MEDIA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 有权
    在共享媒体通信网络中管理FATE共享

    公开(公告)号:US20130227055A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-29

    申请号:US13403103

    申请日:2012-02-23

    IPC分类号: G06F15/16

    摘要: In one embodiment, a management device receives one or more fate-sharing reports locally generated by one or more corresponding reporting nodes in a shared-media communication network, the fate-sharing reports indicating a degree of localized fate-sharing between one or more pairs of nodes local to the corresponding reporting nodes. The management device may then determine, globally from aggregating the fate-sharing reports, one or more fate-sharing groups indicating sets of nodes having a global degree of fate-sharing within the communication network. As such, the management device may then advertise the fate-sharing groups within the communication network, wherein nodes of the communication network are configured to select a plurality of next-hops that minimizes fate-sharing between the plurality of next-hops.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,管理设备接收在共享 - 媒体通信网络中由一个或多个对应的报告节点本地生成的一个或多个命运共享报告,命运共享报告指示一个或多个对之间的局部化命运共享程度 的节点本地到相应的报告节点。 然后,管理设备可以全局地从聚合命运共享报告中确定一个或多个命运共享组,指示在通信网络内具有全局命中共享度的节点集合。 这样,管理装置然后可以通告通信网络内的命运共享组,其中通信网络的节点被配置为选择使多个下一跳之间的命运共享最小化的多个下一跳。

    DIVERSE PATHS USING A SINGLE SOURCE ROUTE IN COMPUTER NETWORKS
    73.
    发明申请
    DIVERSE PATHS USING A SINGLE SOURCE ROUTE IN COMPUTER NETWORKS 有权
    在计算机网络中使用单个源路由的多样化PATHS

    公开(公告)号:US20130223237A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-29

    申请号:US13406823

    申请日:2012-02-28

    IPC分类号: H04L12/56 H04L12/26

    CPC分类号: H04L45/34 H04L45/24 H04W84/18

    摘要: In one embodiment, a source device determines a source route from itself to a destination device in a computer network, and forwards a first packet on the source route with the source route included within the first packet. In addition, the source device generates a second packet with the source route included within the second packet, the second packet also including an indication to cause one or more of a plurality of transit devices to forward the second packet to a reachable 1-hop neighbor of a device in the source route two hops away from the respective transit device. The source device may then forward the second packet itself, as do one the one or more transit devices on a diverse path based on the source route, to a particular reachable 1-hop neighbor of a particular device in the source route two hops away from the source (or transit) device.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,源设备确定从计算机网络中的自身到目的地设备的源路由,并且在源路由上转发包括在第一分组内的源路由的第一分组。 另外,源设备生成第二分组,其中源路由包括在第二分组内,第二分组还包括导致多个传输设备中的一个或多个将第二分组转发到可达的1跳邻居的指示 的源路由中的设备离开相应的传输设备两跳。 源设备然后可以将第二分组自身转发到基于源路由的不同路径上的一个或多个传输设备的一个或多个传输设备到源路由中的特定设备的特定可达1跳邻居, 源(或转接)设备。

    COMPUTING RISK-SHARING METRICS IN SHARED-MEDIA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    74.
    发明申请
    COMPUTING RISK-SHARING METRICS IN SHARED-MEDIA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 有权
    在共享媒体通信网络中计算风险共享度量

    公开(公告)号:US20130223225A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-29

    申请号:US13403023

    申请日:2012-02-23

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24 H04L12/26

    摘要: In one embodiment, a routing node determines a risk-sharing metric between pairs of nodes in a shared-media communication network, and may then compute a plurality of routes that minimizes the risk-sharing metric between the routes, to correspondingly route traffic according to the computed plurality of routes. Additionally, in another embodiment, a particular node in the shared-media communication network may determine a risk-sharing metric between itself and each of one or more other nodes in the shared-media communication network. The particular node may then share the one or more determined risk-sharing metrics with one or more routing nodes in the shared-media communication network, accordingly.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,路由节点确定共享 - 媒体通信网络中的节点对之间的风险共享度量,然后可以计算使路由之间的风险共享度量最小化的多个路由,以相应地根据 计算出的多条路线。 另外,在另一个实施例中,共享 - 媒体通信网络中的特定节点可以确定其与共享媒体通信网络中的一个或多个其他节点之间的风险共享度量。 因此,特定节点可以相应地与共享媒体通信网络中的一个或多个路由节点共享一个或多个确定的风险共享度量。

    REDUCED AUTHENTICATION TIMES FOR SHARED-MEDIA NETWORK MIGRATION
    75.
    发明申请
    REDUCED AUTHENTICATION TIMES FOR SHARED-MEDIA NETWORK MIGRATION 有权
    减少媒体网络移动的认证时间

    公开(公告)号:US20130219478A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-22

    申请号:US13400991

    申请日:2012-02-21

    IPC分类号: G06F21/20

    摘要: In one embodiment, a management device in a computer network determines when nodes of the computer network join any one of a plurality of field area routers (FARs), which requires a shared-media mesh security key for that joined FAR. The management device also maintains a database that indicates to which FAR each node in the computer network is currently joined, and to which FARs, if any, each node had previously joined, where the nodes are configured to maintain the mesh security key for one or more previously joined FARs in order to return to those previously joined FARs with the maintained mesh security key. Accordingly, in response to an updated mesh security key for a particular FAR of the plurality of FARs, the management node initiates distribution of the updated mesh security key to nodes having previously joined that particular FAR that are not currently joined to that particular FAR.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,计算机网络中的管理设备确定计算机网络的何时节点连接多个场区域路由器(FAR)中的任何一个,其需要该加入的FAR的共享媒体网状安全密钥。 管理设备还维护一个数据库,指示计算机网络中每个节点当前加入哪个FAR,以及每个节点先前已加入的哪个FAR(如果有的话),其中节点被配置为维护一个或多个节点的网状安全密钥 以前加入的FAR,以便返回到以前加入的FAR与维护的网状安全密钥。 因此,响应于针对多个FAR的特定FAR的更新的网状安全密钥,管理节点发起更新的网状安全密钥到先前已加入到当前未连接到该特定FAR的特定FAR的节点的分发。

    FAST-TRACKING APPROACH FOR BUILDING ROUTING TOPOLOGIES IN FAST-MOVING NETWORKS
    76.
    发明申请
    FAST-TRACKING APPROACH FOR BUILDING ROUTING TOPOLOGIES IN FAST-MOVING NETWORKS 有权
    在快速移动网络中构建路由拓扑的快速跟踪方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130188513A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-25

    申请号:US13358361

    申请日:2012-01-25

    IPC分类号: H04W84/18

    摘要: In one embodiment, a local node in a communication network determines a set of its neighbor nodes, and determines a respective occurrence frequency at which each particular neighbor node is to be probed based on a rate of change in distance between the local node and the particular neighbor node. The local node may then probe each particular neighbor node according to the respective occurrence frequency to determine the rate of change in distance between the local node and each particular neighbor node, and one or more routing metrics for reaching each particular neighbor node. As such, the local node may select, based on the probing, a suitable preferred next-hop node of the set of neighbor nodes for a corresponding routing topology.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,通信网络中的本地节点确定其相邻节点的集合,并且基于本地节点与特定节点之间的距离的变化率来确定每个特定邻居节点将被探测的相应出现频率 邻居节点。 本地节点然后可以根据相应出现频率来探测每个特定的邻居节点,以确定本地节点和每个特定的相邻节点之间的距离变化速率,以及用于到达每个特定邻居节点的一个或多个路由度量。 因此,本地节点可以基于探测来选择相应路由拓扑的相邻节点集合中的合适的优选下一跳节点。

    QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) CONFIGURATION IN LOW-POWER AND LOSSY NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20130159479A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-06-20

    申请号:US13331890

    申请日:2011-12-20

    IPC分类号: G06F15/177

    摘要: In one embodiment, a distributed intelligence agent (DIA) in a computer network performs deep packet inspection on received packets to determine packet flows, and calculates per-flow service level agreement (SLA) metrics for the packets based on timestamp values placed in the packets by respective origin devices in the computer network. By comparing the SLA metrics to respective SLAs to determine whether the respective SLAs are met, then in response to a particular SLA not being met for a particular flow, the DIA may download determined quality of service (QoS) configuration parameters to one or more visited devices along n calculated paths from a corresponding origin device for the particular flow to the DIA. In addition, in one or more embodiments, the QoS configuration parameters may be adjusted or de-configured based on whether they were successful.

    COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR ENERGY-HARVESTING DEVICES
    78.
    发明申请
    COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR ENERGY-HARVESTING DEVICES 有权
    用于能量收集设备的通信协议

    公开(公告)号:US20130121176A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-05-16

    申请号:US13297997

    申请日:2011-11-16

    IPC分类号: H04L12/26

    CPC分类号: H04L67/12 H05B37/0272

    摘要: In one embodiment, an energy-harvesting communication device of a communication network accumulates energy, e.g., electromagnetic energy. Upon detecting that the accumulated energy surpasses a sufficient threshold, the communication device may transmit a message into the communication network using the accumulated energy as an unreliable and unsynchronized broadcast transmission to any available receiver within the communication network.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,通信网络的能量收集通信设备累积能量,例如电磁能量。 在检测到累积能量超过足够的阈值时,通信设备可以使用累积的能量将消息发送到通信网络中的任何可用接收机的不可靠和不同步的广播传输。

    DYNAMIC KEEPALIVE PARAMETERS FOR REVERSE PATH VALIDATION IN COMPUTER NETWORKS
    79.
    发明申请
    DYNAMIC KEEPALIVE PARAMETERS FOR REVERSE PATH VALIDATION IN COMPUTER NETWORKS 有权
    用于计算机网络中反向路径验证的动态保持参数

    公开(公告)号:US20130067063A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-14

    申请号:US13230373

    申请日:2011-09-12

    IPC分类号: G06F15/16

    摘要: In one embodiment, a network device determines a path from itself to a source device in a computer network, where the source device utilizes the path in reverse to reach the network device. Based on determining a reliability of the path in reverse, the network device may dynamically adjust one or more keepalive parameters for keepalive messages sent on the path. Accordingly, the network device may then send keepalive messages on the path based on the dynamically adjusted keepalive parameters.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,网络设备确定在计算机网络中自身到源设备的路径,其中源设备利用相反的路径到达网络设备。 基于反向确定路径的可靠性,网络设备可以动态调整在路径上发送的保持活动消息的一个或多个保持活动参数。 因此,网络设备然后可以基于动态调整的保持活动参数在路径上发送保持活动消息。

    PROACTIVE SOURCE-BASED REVERSE PATH VALIDATION IN COMPUTER NETWORKS
    80.
    发明申请
    PROACTIVE SOURCE-BASED REVERSE PATH VALIDATION IN COMPUTER NETWORKS 有权
    计算机网络中基于源的反向路径验证

    公开(公告)号:US20130064072A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-14

    申请号:US13230154

    申请日:2011-09-12

    IPC分类号: H04L12/26

    摘要: In one embodiment, a network device may receive an indication of a particular future message time, and determines a path validation time that is prior to the particular future message time by an amount at least long enough to detect and report a route change of a path from the network device to a source of the particular future message, wherein the source utilizes the path in reverse to reach the network device for the particular future message. Accordingly, the network device sends, at the path validation time, a keepalive message on the path, where in response to a failure of the keepalive message on the path, the network device repairs the path to the source with a particular route change, and reports the particular route change to the source, e.g., such that in response, the source may transmit the particular future message on the changed path in reverse.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,网络设备可以接收特定未来消息时间的指示,并且确定在特定未来消息时间之前的路径验证时间至少足够长的时间量以检测和报告路径的路由改变 从网络设备到特定的未来消息的源,其中源使用相反的路径到达用于特定将来消息的网络设备。 因此,网络设备在路径验证时间发送路径上的keepalive消息,响应于该路径上的keepalive消息的故障,网络设备以特定路由更改修复到源的路径,以及 报告到源的特定路由更改,例如,作为响应,源可以相反地在改变的路径上发送特定的将来消息。