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MANAGING FATE-SHARING IN SHARED-MEDIA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

  • US 20130227055A1
  • Filed: 02/23/2012
  • Published: 08/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving, by a management device, 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;

    aggregating the one or more fate-sharing reports;

    determining, globally from the aggregated fate-sharing reports, one or more fate-sharing groups indicating sets of nodes having a global degree of fate-sharing within the communication network; and

    advertising 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.

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