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MANAGING GREY ZONES OF UNREACHABLE NODES IN COMPUTER NETWORKS

  • US 20140029610A1
  • Filed: 07/30/2012
  • Published: 01/30/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • identifying, within a currently known directed acyclic graph (DAG) topology of a computer network, a sub-DAG of one or more nodes that are unreachable;

    determining a scope of the unreachable nodes of the sub-DAG; and

    tunneling a redirected message to a reachable node of the DAG topology that is adjacent to at least one of the unreachable nodes of the sub-DAG, the redirected message causing the reachable node to distribute the redirected message to one or more of the unreachable nodes of the sub-DAG based on the scope.

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