System for communicating labeled routing trees to establish preferred paths and source routes with local identifiers in wireless computer networks
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Abstract
One or more labeled routing trees (LRTs) are produced at a router of a computer network according to a shortest path determination made over a partial topology graph of the network, which graph is produced according to knowledge of adjacent links of the router and one or more LRTs of neighboring routers. The LRTs of the router may be updated in response to receipt of routing state update messages, and such messages may include local link identifiers assigned by a head of a link to which the identifiers pertain, and node parameters of a tail of the link to which the local link identifiers pertain. The routing state update messages may be transmitted within the network: (i) in response to a new destination node being detected by an existing node within the network, (ii) in response to a destination becoming unreachable by a collection of the existing nodes, (iii) in response to the change in the cost of a path to at least one destination exceeding a threshold and/or (iv) in situations where a routing loop may be encountered among two or more of the nodes of the network (e.g., at times when a path implied in the LRT of the router leads to a loop).
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28. A method for routing information along preferred paths in a computer network in which a plurality of routers are interconnected by communication links, comprising:
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forming a partial topology graph for a router by combining link-state information of each adjacent link, router-state information of each adjacent router, and link-state information and node-state information of each link adjacent to each adjacent router; and
computing a plurality of labeled routing trees (LRT) for the router using only the partial topology graph, each LRT corresponding to a type of service of the computer network, each LRT specifying a preferred path from the router to each of a plurality of destination routers in the network. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31)
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32. A source routing protocol, for a computer network in which a plurality of routers are interconnected by communication links, comprising distributing, among the plurality of routers of the computer network, a local link identifier corresponding to each router within routing state update messages, the routing state update messages including a link-state information and a node-state information,
wherein each router maintains a plurality of labeled routing tree (LRT), each LRT corresponding to a type of service of the computer network.
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